An international smuggling of foreign cigarettes from Cambodia has been caught, Sri Lanka Customs said today (March 23).
It is reported that the container was sent to the Colombo port for re-export from Cambodia on February 23 and the Sri Lankan customs officers had investigated it after it was sent to the Colombo port.
During initial investigations, none of the shipping documents declared to the Sri Lankan Customs indicated any foreign cigarettes contained therein.
However. the cigarettes were discovered packed to fit inside the container.
The goods compressed in the container included 71 A4 paper packets, 439 empty cardboard boxes and six million Marlboro Gold type foreign cigarettes that are worth six billion rupees considering the local market value.
Further investigations are being carried out regarding this container with the assistance of foreign institutions if necessary and the Mobile Branch of the Revenue Monitoring Division of Sri Lanka Customs.
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
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The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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