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Andhra Pradesh: Foreign and illegal Indian cigarettes worth ₹3.45 crore seized

August 3, 2022 by adminficci News 0 comments

Officers of the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive Commissionerate) have seized huge quantity of foreign cigarettes and illegal Indian-made cigarettes, all valued at about ₹3.45 crore.

On a tip-off, the officers tracked a container at Kesarapalli village on the Vijayawada-Visakhapatnam National Highway on Wednesday.

Upon checking, the officers found that the container was loaded with 156 sacks containing the smuggled cigarettes. The vehicle was coming from Patna to Vijayawada.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-foreign-and-illegal-indian-cigarettes-worth-345-crore-seized/article65721806.ece

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