By Cathy Elelman • Published: 01 Sep 2019 • 16:34
HIDDEN: Guardia officers discovered 3,250 packets of smokes hidden in a false bottom in the back of a van. CREDIT: Almeria Guardia
GUARDIA Civil seized thousands of packets of contraband cigarettes during a routine check on vehicles disembarking at Almeria port. Officers found 3,250 packs of smokes hidden in a van coming off a ferry from Ghazaouet in Algeria. The driver told them he had nothing to declare at customs, but a thorough inspection of the vehicle led to the discovery of a false bottom in the back of the vehicle and a hoard of cigarettes with a market value of €1,650. After checking that the packets lacked the obligatory tax stamp, officers detained M.B. on charges of contraband.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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