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Ukranian railway engineers arrested for cigarette smuggling 

Hungary's customs officials arrested two engineers of a cargo train from Ukraine, suspected of having smuggled cigarettes into Hungary, seizing both the smuggled goods and the train's engine at Zahony border station, a local customs spokesman told MTI on Wednesday. The train entered the country late on Tuesday. Officers spotted that several large packages had been thrown out of it before it reached the railway station, Jozsef Kupecz said.

The packages were found to contain some 15,000 packets of Ukrainian cigarettes, worth an estimated 7 million forints (22,400 euros).

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