Smuggling [1]: Four million cigarettes discovered in lorry at Dover [2]
Posted by editor on Sep 27, 2009 - 10:35 AM
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A
foreign driver has been arrested after more than four million
cigarettes were found in a lorry at Dover. |
Customs officers who stopped a
Hungarian-registered lorry at the port
on Thursday (24 September) found an estimated £708,000
worth of cigarettes.
The Hungarian driver from near Budapest, was arrested,
questioned and bailed pending further
inquiries.
Bob Gaiger of HM Revenue and Customs
said: "We take a very serious view of
cigarette and tobacco smuggling."
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