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Police in Spain have seized 465,000 packs of fake cigarettes worth more than 2.2 million euros (HK$22.6 million) smuggled by boat from China, the interior ministry said on Monday.
The seizure in Valencia led to 10 arrests, the ministry added.
Police believe the counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes were destined for France as the text on the packets was in French, the ministry said in a statement.
Two Spaniards and eight Polish nationals were arrested in the operation.
The cigarettes arrived in Valencia last month on a ship from the port of Chiwan, just north of Hong Kong.


Spain seizes HK$22m of fake cigarettes from China 

The counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes were destined for France, authorities believed. Photo: AFP 

Customs seizes 5m cigarettes smuggled from mainland China

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JOLIE HO

Customs' Lai Sau-ieng (left) and Wan Hing-chuen show seized cigarettes, tablet computers and mobile phones. Photo: David Wong

About 5 million illicit cigarettes were seized by the Customs and Excise Department in a one-week special operation to combat the smuggling of cigarettes from the mainland to Hong Kong through a cross-boundary logistics network.
