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    02 May 2012| last updated at 04:48PM

    Customs' biggest seizure this year

    By Fahirul N. Ramli

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    KUALA LUMPUR: Customs made its biggest seizure this year when its officers confiscated RM500,000 worth of contraband cigarettes involving import duties and sales tax totalling RM3.91 million.

    The city customs department director Datuk Saadon Mohd Dros said the Luffman brand cigarettes were found in a container at Port Klang on April 25.

    "A manager from a forwarding company agent was detained hours later when he came to claim the 'white cigarettes' and declared them as general goods," he said at a press conference today.

    It was revealed that the company registered did not exist.

    The case is being investigated under Section 133(1)(a) of the Customs Act 1967 for false declaration of goods.

    NSTP/ Zulfadhli Zulkifli.

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