{"id":93908,"date":"2017-03-14T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93908"},"modified":"2017-03-14T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:25:54","slug":"romania-seizes-smuggled-cigarettes-worth-2-8-m-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/14\/romania-seizes-smuggled-cigarettes-worth-2-8-m-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania seizes smuggled cigarettes worth 2.8-M euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92904\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cig-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92904\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cig-2.png\" alt=\"Romania's custom authorities in southern port of Constanta on Monday captured 700,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, announced the Customs Directorate General in a statement. (Photo: Ken Yamaguchi\/Flickr)\" width=\"264\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cig-2.png 264w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cig-2-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romania&#8217;s custom authorities in southern port of Constanta on Monday captured 700,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, announced the Customs Directorate General in a statement. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/k14\/416438431\/\"> Ken Yamaguchi\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BUCHAREST\u2014Romania&#8217;s custom authorities in southern port of Constanta on Monday captured 700,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, announced the Customs Directorate General in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The cigarettes, marked with brands of Gold Mount and Richman, have a market value of approximately 2.8 million euros (USD2.99 million), said the statement, adding that it is the most valuable boodle of smuggled cigarettes over the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authorities, the cigarettes, wrapped in boxes without specific seals, were stored in a container from Thailand that transported copy machine paper as declared goods.<\/p>\n<p>The custom authorities suspected that the cigarettes might also violate intellectual property rights for the Gold Mount and Richman brands.<\/p>\n<p>The port of Constanta, Romania&#8217;s only gateway to the sea, is the largest port on the Black Sea and one of the largest ports in Europe. Being Romania&#8217;s only gateway to the sea, the port has been the main transit point for smuggling drugs and cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCHAREST\u2014Romania&#8217;s custom authorities in southern port of Constanta on Monday captured 700,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes, announced the Customs Directorate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[6919,16586],"class_list":["post-93908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-cigarettes","tag-smuggled-cigarettes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}