Sener Toktas
04 October 2019•Update: 04 October 2019
BITLIS, Turkey
Nearly 46,000 packs of contraband cigarettes were seized in eastern Turkey, officials said on Friday.
The Bitlis Governorate said the local police confiscated 45,730 packs of smuggled cigarettes in a farmhouse in Tatvan district on Thursday.
A legal procedure was initiated against two suspects over the case.
Meanwhile, the gendarmerie forces seized 118 kilograms (260 pounds) contraband tobacco in Guroymak district in a car during regular road patrols.
*Writing by Fahri Aksut
