Customs officers have seized a container carrying 10 million contraband cigarettes destined for the local market.

The discovery was made last night.

According to documentation, the container should have been carrying bathroom equipment.

Duties on the cigarettes would have amounted to more than €1.5 million.

A Magisterial inquiry in being held.

The police are investigating

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