Cuban Customs frustrates the departure of more than 4,000 undeclared cigars in Havana

[El Presidente]

 

 

Cuban Customs frustrates the departure of more than 4,000 undeclared cigars in Havana

The seizure at the capital's airport reveals smuggling attempts that yield high illicit profits and resulted in a report to the Revolutionary National Police.

Cuba's Customs thwarted an attempt to smuggle an exorbitant number of more than 4,400 loose cigars with bands that were set to leave the country unreported from Havana's international airport

The first deputy chief of the General Customs of the Republic, Wiliam Pérez González, reported on the social media platform X that agents detected the merchandise while attempting to evade customs control, although he did not specify the number of individuals who tried to remove that volume of cigars.

Similarly, the regime official did not specify in the brief note whether the cigars were authentic, although they were likely counterfeits that, nevertheless, sell well outside of Cuba.

 

[El Presidente]

Bolivar Royal Corona, D4, Fundies? 

Best guesses? 

 

[HDGSN]

JL1s in there too it looks like.

[riderpride]

Sounds like they found a fall guy to keep the back/side doors open. 

Cheers!

[Zonum]

I’ll take them, lol! 

[Gemini_Man]

I ponder how many smaller shipments usually make their way through... I feel like whatever outfit is responsible worked their way up to a 4k+ batch and had plenty of smaller successes to embolden their greed.

[Ford2112]

Golly!

[Fuzz AI]

13 hours ago, El Presidente said:

 

 

 

12 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Bolivar Royal Corona, D4, Fundies? 

Best guesses? 

 

8 hours ago, HDGSN said:

JL1s in there too it looks like

Also looks like a pack of HdM Epicure.

[Li Bai]

Lots of ERs can be seen on the first picture I'd say.

12 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Bolivar Royal Corona, D4, Fundies? 

Best guesses? 

 

8 hours ago, HDGSN said:

JL1s in there too it looks like

It sure looks like it, I think I can see RASS too.

[Cigar Surgeon]

[ha_banos]

Counterfeit Cuban cigars coming out of Cuba now. Or always ?....Nicked from factories or nicked tobacco? Or farm tobacco? Or floor shavings? Or...?

What a mess...

 

[El Presidente]

13 minutes ago, ha_banos said:

Counterfeit Cuban cigars coming out of Cuba now. Or always ?

Always. Well since I have been around in the game (1996)

14 minutes ago, ha_banos said:

Nicked from factories or nicked tobacco? Or farm tobacco? Or floor shavings? Or...?

All of the above! 

It is a roaring trade right now for obvious reasons. From the freeway of cigars from the sidedoor of factories  to chincalle cigar operations doing fakes within Cuba (some very good ones) utilising farm tobacco to OS operations putting together high end fakes "replicas" of humidors/books/Behike/top end. They are using high end Cuban tobacco. Of course you also have the crap tobacco fakes that are peddled from bar to bar, corner to corner. 

Full gambit. Mess indeed!