On 18 February, EU Reporter reported that a successful co-operation between OLAF, the Royal Malaysian Customs and the Belgian Customs led in February to the seizure of 62.6 million cigarettes destined to be smuggled into the EU. Together with an earlier record-breaking seizure of 135 million in Antwerp in January, nearly 200 million smuggled cigarettes have been prevented from entering the EU. In the latest case, 6 containers containing cigarettes had arrived under false declaration to a free trade zone in Malaysia, ready for onward shipment to Europe.
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