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Guangxi police seize smuggled cigarettes worth 100 mln USD

Xinhua,March 21, 2018 Adjust font size:

NANNING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Illicit cigarettes with a market value of around 640 million yuan (about 100 million U.S. dollars) have been seized by police in Fangchenggang city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Altogether 48 suspects were caught, local police said on Wednesday.

On Jan. 17, 2017, police received report of smuggled cigarettes being sold in Shenzhen.

Investigation showed that a suspect surnamed Su had been smuggling cigarettes from Vietnam through Dongxing city in Guangxi since 2015. Coach drivers then transport the cigarettes to Shenzhen. Enditem