Customs seizes $6.8m illicit cigarettes at Man Kam To, mainland driver arrested

Hong Kong Customs arrested a 44-year-old mainland Chinese man on Monday after seizing about 1.51 million suspected illicit cigarettes worth about HK$6.8 million from a container at a logistics yard on Man Kam To Road, authorities said.

The cigarettes, with a duty value of about HK$5 million, were hidden deep inside a 40-foot container with ordinary goods placed at the front as cover. The driver had arrived to collect the container for shipment.

Customs said the syndicate had used a remote and concealed logistics yard as a storage facility to complicate investigations. The operation is believed to have dismantled an illicit cigarette export smuggling chain, with further arrests possible.

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