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BoM Sept '12 & Aug '13
I've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Italian RE La Escepcion cigar and was doing a little looking around online and came across an interesting newsletter released on Dec 22nd by Italy's official Habanos Distributor Diadema... I have heard it's really difficult to get cigars out of Italy and this newsletter really spells it out. It's also interesting how the last paragraph says they are stepping up searches in January to try and prevent incoming cigars.
Has anyone heard recent news for when this is hitting the shelves?
This is translated with Google:
We all know how the Internet is now an important tool and used, but can become - Sometimes even for simple-mindedness of users - a medium that offers the opportunity to commit illegal acts. One of these is just to buy tobacco online. The saving is usually the motivation that leads to making rash purchases of cigars by self-styled sites, scattered all over the world, offering products (often of dubious origin and quality) to very attractive prices on paper. But it is good to keep in mind that this is illegal in Italy!
We're talking about an action that in our Penal Code exactly is classified as contraband. The existing law is very clear about the penalties are heavy, and in both administrative and criminal matters involving a fine of 5.16 euro for each gram of the conventional product and imprisonment from two to five years. It 'best to make clear that the weight is not related to the actual weight of a cigar, but the conventional, so for a simple box of 25 cigars is subject to a penalty of 645.00, not to mention that the goods will be confiscated of course .
Diadema Spa, as an importer and exclusive distributor for Italy of Habanos cigars, has always been sensitive to this problem and has intensified in recent weeks a work of research and systematic complaint to the Financial Police and the Autonomous Administration of Monopolies State, specifying all the websites on the net offering the purchase of Cuban cigars.
In these days have been reported 5 other portals (in addition to an Italian site) on which ads appear for the sale of Cuban cigars, many of them among the other patently false.
Our appreciation goes to the staff at this time of the Guardia di Finanza and the Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies, which is striving to stem the flow, trying to intercept from the month of January 2012, deliveries of cigars coming from 'Foreign and applying the more stringent the regulations, the protection of all tobacconists and enthusiasts of Habanos.
Has anyone heard recent news for when this is hitting the shelves?
This is translated with Google:
We all know how the Internet is now an important tool and used, but can become - Sometimes even for simple-mindedness of users - a medium that offers the opportunity to commit illegal acts. One of these is just to buy tobacco online. The saving is usually the motivation that leads to making rash purchases of cigars by self-styled sites, scattered all over the world, offering products (often of dubious origin and quality) to very attractive prices on paper. But it is good to keep in mind that this is illegal in Italy!
We're talking about an action that in our Penal Code exactly is classified as contraband. The existing law is very clear about the penalties are heavy, and in both administrative and criminal matters involving a fine of 5.16 euro for each gram of the conventional product and imprisonment from two to five years. It 'best to make clear that the weight is not related to the actual weight of a cigar, but the conventional, so for a simple box of 25 cigars is subject to a penalty of 645.00, not to mention that the goods will be confiscated of course .
Diadema Spa, as an importer and exclusive distributor for Italy of Habanos cigars, has always been sensitive to this problem and has intensified in recent weeks a work of research and systematic complaint to the Financial Police and the Autonomous Administration of Monopolies State, specifying all the websites on the net offering the purchase of Cuban cigars.
In these days have been reported 5 other portals (in addition to an Italian site) on which ads appear for the sale of Cuban cigars, many of them among the other patently false.
Our appreciation goes to the staff at this time of the Guardia di Finanza and the Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies, which is striving to stem the flow, trying to intercept from the month of January 2012, deliveries of cigars coming from 'Foreign and applying the more stringent the regulations, the protection of all tobacconists and enthusiasts of Habanos.
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