Police in Svilengrad and Haskovo found 9,520 cigarettes without excise stamps on three men, the Haskovo regional police directorate said in a bulletin on 6 November.

The largest haul, 7,200 cigarettes with no tax stamp, was in a Volkswagen owned by a 47-year-old man from Harmanli.

Officers seized 1,800 cigarettes without excise stamps from a Ford belonging to a 46-year-old man from the village of Daskalovo.

The smallest amount, 520 cigarettes with no tax stamp, was in a Volkswagen belonging to a 30-year-old man from the village of Malko Dryanovo. Police stopped him on Osvobozhdenie Boulevard in Haskovo.