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Shisha tobacco smuggler gets suspended sentence

April 28, 2016 by admin News 0 comments

A refugee caught smuggling 16 kilos of shisha tobacco from Italy was today given a six-month suspended sentence and fined €1,655.

SaediyaEdris, 26, was yesterday detained by customs official at Malta International Airport after arriving from Fiumicino in Rome.

Though the substance is not illegal, the Ethiopian-born woman who enjoys subsidiary protection by the Italian government, did not declare the 64-pack consignment, and passed through the nothing to declare exit.

 

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160428/local/shisha-tobacco-smuggler-gets-suspended-sentence.610343

 

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