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4L spurious cigarettes seized at port

February 07, 2025 1 min read
author Anamika Mishra, Sub Editor
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized 4.6 lakh spurious cigarette sticks at Chennai port. These cigarettes smuggled from Thailand are worth 9.2 crore. Based on specific information that spurious cigarettes were being smuggled via sea from Thailand, DRI sleuths searched a container that reached Chennai port in a ship. The container had been declared to carry a tabletop fireplace. However, when DRI sleuths opened the container, they found foreign brand cigarettes concealed in it. The

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