
4 arrested for cigarette smuggling
Customs officers have arrested four people and seized nearly four million illicit cigarettes worth $9.4 million, and with a duty potential of about $6.6 million. In a week-long operation, they intercepted a van in Sha Tin and found 400,000 illicit cigarettes. They then raided a storage centre in Sham Shui Po and found another 800,000 illicit cigarettes. Then they intercepted an incoming cross-boundary vehicle and found 2.7 million illicit cigarettes mixed with other goods. Three men and one woman, aged 26 to 56, were arrested.
http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/law_order/html/2014/01/20140111_170703.shtml
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