UK: Felixstowe Port Officers Seize Nine Million Cigarettes

Source from:  BBC News 04/23/2013

Border staff have seized nine million cigarettes at Felixstowe docks, which would have avoided £2m in unpaid tax.

Border Force said the cargo arrived on Wednesday, 17 April with a false manifest.

The cigarettes arrived at the port from Malaysia. The ship's documents claimed it was carrying plastic containers.

Charlotte Mann, Border Force officer at Felixstowe, said: "You would struggle to find a more brazen smuggling attempt.

"The container was full of cigarettes stacked floor to ceiling throughout," she added.

The government agency said confiscated cigarettes were destroyed. Enditem