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Estonian customs officials find nearly 5 mln contraband cigarettes hidden in rail cars
BC, Tallinn, 13.12.2016.
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Print versionstonian customs officials found nearly five million contraband cigarettes hidden in caches built into the walls of rail freight cars on the Russian-Estonian border last week, reports LETA/BNS,
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he officials took action after the exteriors of some of the freight cars of a train that arrived at the Koidula border station shortly after midnight on Friday attracted their attention, the Tax and Customs Board said on its Facebook page.
A closer examination of the cars revealed that the front and the back ends of the cars had double walls. Altogether almost five million cigarettes with Russian and Belarusian tax tags were found inside the secret compartments.
The tax authority said this was one of the biggest finds of contraband in Estonia's recent history.
An investigation has been started.
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