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• Cigarette smugglers fired up 

More than 3 million packets of cigarettes exported from Greece and then illegally smuggled back into the country have been seized at customs checks during the last two months, high-ranking police sources told Kathimerini yesterday.

Officers said the practice, which results in millions of euros in lost tax revenues, is becoming more popular with smugglers. The cigarettes are often brought into Greece in the back of trucks but hiding them in shipping containers is also a popular method.

The port of Constanta in Romania is one of the hubs

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