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Illegal cigarettes seized from footwear container
RIGA- The Latvian Customs Criminal Board have uncovered a hefty amount of smuggled cigarettes, the biggest amount found all year.The illegal smokes were discovered in a Chinese footwear container received by a Latvian company.
As reported by LETA news agency, at the end of March customs officials seized about 2.3 million illegal cigarettes with Russian excise duty stickers on them.
The total duty on these cigarettes would have been LVL 104,352. No word yet on how much the most recent contraband was worth.
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