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Jump to full article: Somerset County Gazette (uk), 2004-02-12
Intro: AN anti-smuggling operation on board a cruise ship operating out of Falmouth has uncovered one of the biggest hauls of tobacco ever seized from a vessel in a South West port.
One and a half tonnes of tobacco was discovered when a targeted search was carried out aboard the Van Gogh last week, after it docked in Falmouth having returned from the Caribbean.
The ship, which carries 600 passengers, is a regular caller into Falmouth and is popular with Cornish holidaymakers as well as those from other parts of the UK.
Mobile officers, acting on intelligence, discovered 1,535 kilos of tobacco locked in the crew's sauna and 618,000 cigarettes hidden in a store.
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