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Counterfeit vapes in legal retail chains: seizure worth 2.3 million rubles and market estimate up to 103 billion

Activists of 'Healthy Fatherland', using the 'Chestny Znak' app, discovered vape products banned from sale at a kiosk of a tobacco chain; a joint inspection with police lasted about five hours and ended with the seizure of nearly one and a half thousand devices and liquids worth 2.3 million rubles. According to CRPT, legal vape sales in 2025 amounted to 33.6 billion rubles, while the 'Center for Market Economics' estimates the market at 103.3 billion rubles. Laboratory tests found nicotine in 'nicotine-free' samples and se

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Police conducted a five-hour raid at a MosTabak store in Moscow and seized six boxes of products

An inspection of a MosTabak chain store on Leningradsky Prospekt took place after a public raid by the SHOT PROVERKA project and the Healthy Fatherland movement, which found vapes and liquids banned in the Chestny Znak system. The raid involved UBEP officers and forensic specialists; six boxes of suspicious products were seized. The question of opening a criminal case is being considered.

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