SMUGGLERS had millions of cigarettes seized after they had stashed them inside radiators shipped into Tilbury docks.
Officers found £614,00 worth of Jin Ling cigarettes in a trailer shipped from Belgium to Tilbury.
Their suspicions had been drawn to discrepancies in the documentation. Otherwise,
A legal importation of this amount of cigarettes would usually provide HM Treasury with more than £400,000 in excise duty and VAT.
Anyone with information about suspected smuggling activity should call the UK Border Agency on 0800 595 000.
