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Customs seize illegally imported cigarettes

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Sri Lanka customs seized a large consignment of illegally imported cigarettes on Monday.
 
The Additional Director General of Customs and Media Spokesman, Seevali Arukgoda said that officers of  Customs Revenue Task Force(RTF) during an inspection at a  warehouse in the Colombo Port premises, had detected the illegally imported cigarettes.
 
According to him the consignment contained a total of 713,000 sticks of branded cigarettes(3565 Ctns) which were smuggled into the country  in the disguised shipment. 
 
The contraband was discovered concealed inside of 05 pallets of hollowed-out polypropylene  corrugated sheets of 5mm, which had been  imported from United Arab Emirates to a company in Padukka.
The estimated  value  of cigarettes is Rs. 124,019,554, resulting in defraud  of revenue to  the state of Rs.107,985,621.
 
Investigations are being conducted by RTF officers.
 
 
 
 
 

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