Foreign Cigarettes worth Rs. 7 M  Confiscated from a Vietnamese ship

Foreign Cigarettes worth Rs. 7 M  Confiscated from a Vietnamese ship

FastnewsSep 6, 2017
Customs officers attached to the Port Control Unit have detected 133,980 foreign cigarettes aboard a Vietnamese ship MV THAI BINH 039 , being captained by a Vietnamese national in Colombo.
The  value of the contraband detected in the ship which carried cement  is estimated  to be Rs. 6,699,000.
After an inquiry, the Deputy Director of Customs, G. G. Premasiri had  confiscated  the smuggled goods and placed them under Customs custody. The captain had also been  fined Rs. 100,000.