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· Canary Islands
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Jump to full article: HM Customs and Excise, 2003-07-24
Intro: Officers from one of Customs new flexible mobile teams have seized 227,000 cigarettes from a group of Gloucester passengers returning to the UK from the Canary Islands.
The group of eight people arrived at Bristol Airport last night, at around midnight, on a flight from Tenerife. The group were stopped as they passed through Customs. Their baggage was searched and officers recovered a total of 227,000 cigarettes. All of the cigarettes were confiscated. On average each person was carrying 175 cartons of 200 cigarettes.
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