Updated: undeclared cigarettes found on bunkering vessel
Two boxes containing 190,200 cigarettes on which duties had not been paid were found last night hidden in cabins in a ship at Malta Freeport, the Customs Department said.
The discovery was made by members of the Police Economic Crimes Unit and Customs Officers acting on a tip-off.
The Customs Department said the cigarettes were in a small tanker berthed alongside another ship. Nineteen vodka bottles on which duty had not been paid were also found.
The captain, a foreign national, was arrested.
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