8 million cigarettes found in biggest Belfast port seizure for 6 years

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Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:41

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Border force officials have seized eight million contraband cigarettes at Belfast port.

It's the biggest seizure there in 6 years.

The discovery was made in a 40ft container which had arrived on a ship from Singapore on Saturday.

The load was listed as bed linen with a delivery address in county Down.

But during a search the officers discovered 40 pallets with a total of 800 boxes containing the cigarettes.

Had the cigarettes made it through - it's estimated it could have cost the treasury more than 2.5 million pounds in unpaid duty and VAT.

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