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Cigarette haul seized at NI port 

Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2009-07-08

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Customs officers have seized 8.5m smuggled cigarettes at Belfast docks.

The find, said to be worth about £5m, had been smuggled from China and was hidden behind boxes lined with carbon paper to try to avoid X-ray detection.

The cigarettes were seized by officers from the UK Border Agency. A man was arrested but released without charge.

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