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Smuggler busted in $6M cigarette-tax dodging scheme 

A Jordanian smuggler has been nabbed with millions of fake cigarette tax stamps from five states, Brooklyn prosecutors said Wednesday.

Rafea al-Nablisi, 40, of Queens, was caught trying to sell stamps that could have let bootleggers evade cigarette taxes, authorities said. A subsequent search warrant on two storage lockers turned up a record $6.1 million in phony stamps, prosecutors said.

"This type of crime costs New York State and New York City hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue annually," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.

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