Cigarettes valued at Rs 2 m in custody

Indika POLKOTUWA

The Central Province Fraud Detection Bureau, took into custody a consignment of cigarettes worth about Rs 2 million smuggled from Turkey when the consignment was being transported to Nuwara Eliya from Akurana yesterday.

Bureau officers also arrested two persons transporting the cigarette consignment comprising 86,200 cigarettes packed in 431 cartons.

OIC Central Province Fraud Bureau IP Jayasiri Amarasinghe said the cigarettes were being transported in the guise of transporting perfume to be sold during the festive season.