"Cigarettes were with duty-free labeling, that is, without Romanian tax labeling. They were among the palletized candies that were included in the customs declarations," says the head of the regional department of the Romanian customs (Brasov) Verginica Dragoi.

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received copies of these declarations.

The sender is "Roshen" confectionery corporation, head office in Kyiv.

The destination city is Bucharest, Romania.

The contents of the truck are chocolates, waffles, candies.

According to the TSN, neither the Ukrainian nor the Romanian customs thoroughly checked the truck, because it did not arouse any suspicion.

"A good cover product is precisely the Roshen brand, because it is a well-known company engaged in exports. And it was quite inappropriate to assume that there would be cigarettes in this cargo," says Viktor Berestenko, president of the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine.

Everything went wrong in the depths of Romania.

The car was accidentally stopped by the police, and then the driver allegedly began to get confused in his testimony.

"The destination was the internal customs in Bucharest. When the driver was asked where he was going, he told us that he was going to Oradea, and then the suspicion of the police was further strengthened by the route the driver was taking, because he deviated from the way to the capital," he says Head of the Regional Department of the Romanian Customs (Brasov) Verginica Dragoi.

The truck was sent to the city of Brasov for a thorough inspection.

There it turned out that in addition to sweets, she had almost 4 million duty-free cigarettes.

In the declaration, Ms. Yefimenko is listed as the broker-declarant - that is, the person who prepares the declarations.

We talk to her by phone:

• "For now, I cannot comment on anything to you, because they did not authorize me to do so. But I can only tell you one thing, that all trucks are loaded under video surveillance."

• "Under the video surveillance of the company "Roshen" - yes? And what happens next with it?"

• "I will not comment because I am not authorized."

These documents once again confirm that the sender knew the contents of the truck for sure.

The deed of loading of the very car VKH5519SM, which will later be detained in Romania, and the appendix to the agreement between the Kyiv and Romanian "Roshens": the appendix lists all the sweet official positions - for 53 thousand euros, and in the deed of loading it is written in black and white: "Third-party investments there are no, there are no omissions, the assortment corresponds to the labeling."

"Such a quantity of cigarettes - a whole car - it could not be simple. The driver drove somewhere, loaded, then drove to the country, unloaded somewhere without the knowledge of the company he serves. He could not know what was being loaded at the warehouse, he could don't know. But he hardly took upon himself the responsibility to load cigarettes anywhere," says Viktor Berestenko, president of the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine.

By the way, an interesting detail: the official document that "Roshen" submitted to customs was drawn up... in the language of the aggressor state.

But that, as they say, is another story.

The driver of the ill-fated truck is arrested for 30 days.

He is currently without a mobile phone.

TSN contacts his wife:

• "So according to the documents, he is taking candy there?"

• "Ugh!"

• "And cakes?"

• "Huh! Well, something like that. And I know what they download there?!"

• "Well, come on, free the man, because he's clearly not guilty!"

• "Of course, I understand that he did not know that such a thing was being done!"

But could the founder of the "Roshen" corporation, Petro Poroshenko, not know that the company's trucks are being delivered abroad?

For several days, TSN tried to get comments from Roshen Corporation.

The site only lists a hotline for buyers:

• "And tell me, please, I understand that your hotline is for consumers, and not tell me how to contact the press service?"

• "We can only give an email address."

TSN wrote several letters to Roshen's e-mail address, and also sent inquiries on the company's website.

The answer is silence.

The State Customs Service of Ukraine is waiting for official explanations from colleagues from Romania - what actually happened, and is investigating the actions of its employees.

• "Tobacco products are generally products that we find quite often, because it is well known that the prices in Europe are different from ours, so people really try to smuggle them in," said Alevtyna Topchiyeva, head of the press service of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

• "And are they really often hidden among other products?"

• "Yes, and among other products, and in structural cavities of vehicles."

Why some citizens take such risks becomes clear if you calculate the total profit from the sale of large batches of duty-free cigarettes.

"Calculate for yourself: the average price of cigarettes is 6-7 euros. You understand, it all goes as duty free. At least 1.5-2 euros are earned per pack," explains Ruslan Povrazyuk, an expert of the Association of Customs Brokers of Ukraine.

That is, for approximately 200 thousand packages, as in the last case, the organizers of the scheme could recover up to half a million euros.

Such a flight was hardly an exception.

TSN sources report that at the moment when it became known that the police had stopped a truck in Romania, three trucks with "Roshen" products, which were waiting for their turn to cross the border from the Ukrainian side, turned around and drove off.