Five arrested in cigarette smuggling probe

Five people have been arrested following the discovery of six million smuggled cigarettes in a warehouse in Brielle near Rotterdam.

Four Dutch nationals and an Irish man aged 45 to 66 have been picked up in connection with the haul, RTL news said. The raid was made following a tip-off from European Union fraud investigators.

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