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Portimão customs seize fake fags from Madeira ferry Customs and Border Control officials (DGAIEC) at the Portimão cruise port seized 400,000 cigarettes from inside a vehicle being carried on the Volcan de Tijarafe ferry, which connects the Algarve to Madeira and the Canary Islands.
A press statement from DGAIEC confirmed that Portimão officials seized “a large quantity of cigarettes – 400,000 – during a control intervention carried out on Sunday at Portimão’s port”. The cigarettes were reportedly found within a vehicle being transported on the ferry, presumably a lorry, “hidden inside sofas and washing machines”. They were of various brands, including Ducatos, PallMall and Marshall. At the time the cigarettes were seized the driver of the vehicle, a Colombian national, carried a Spanish residency permit. He was detained and heard in court this week. Last June more than two million cigarettes of brands including Fortuna, Nobel, Pall Mall and Chesterfield were seized on the Algarve’s A22 motorway during routine checks on goods vehicles, worth in the region of €339,000. During the checks the GNR seized three vehicles and arrested three individuals in relation to the crimes, which are punishable with prison sentences of up to three years.
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