Officials seize five million cigarettes

Some five million cigarettes without tax stickers have been found at a warehouse in the Limburg village of Stein.


A 58-year-old man and 53-year-old woman have been arrested in connection with the find. If the cigarettes had come on to the market, the tax office would have been conned out of €1m, Nos television reported.

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