Customs has since 2005 confiscated 20.9 kilogrammes of cocaine, 26.8 kilogrammes of heroin, 75,715 restricted or controlled pills, more than 140 million cigarettes, of which 73 million were counterfeits and 142 containers with counterfeit goods.

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech gave the information in reply to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP David Agius.

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