Father and son face trial for selling cigarettes near Tula

The indictment was approved against two residents of Leninsky district - 28 and 58 years. They are accused of acquiring, storing and transporting for the purpose of marketing unlabeled tobacco products committed by a group of persons on a preliminary conspiracy on a large scale.

According to the investigation, from October to November 2025, an individual entrepreneur together with his son bought unmarked cigarettes without excise stamps in Tula and transported them for sale to retail outlets in the village of Aleshnya and the village of Koptevo, Leninsky district.

Law enforcement officers stopped illegal activities: more than 960 packs of cigarettes worth over 129 thousand rubles were seized from circulation, the truck used in the crime was arrested.

The case was sent to the Leninsky District Court of the Tula region.

Earlier, “MK in Tula” reported on the sentence under Efremov married couple for illegal tobacco trafficking. From July to November 2024, they bought more than 1.6 thousand packs of cigarettes without excise stamps and stored them for sale - products were seized in the amount of more than 200 thousand rubles, the couple was fined almost 1.1 million.