Article: R1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes seized

A man was arrested in possession of over R1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes in Crescent Street, Overport, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Saturday.

On Friday the man was arrested in a joint operation between police, the tactical response team, customs officials and investigators from a tobacco company, Captain Thulani Zwane said.
 
Cigarette smuggling is rife now the price is so high with all the tax on them ,the returns are so great now .Guys are paying R8 for a pack of smuggled 20s .
This will just get worse and government will loose more and more money through smuggling .
 
FNfal said:
Cigarette smuggling is rife now the price is so high with all the tax on them ,the returns are so great now .Guys are paying R8 for a pack of smuggled 20s .
This will just get worse and government will loose more and more money through smuggling .
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Naaa the amount of money they make on cigi's would counter it. It is a good thing cigi's are so expensive, it may help the young ones to avoid smoking.
 
A man was arrested in possession of over R1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes in Crescent Street, Overport, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Saturday.

"The cigarettes are allegedly unlawfully manufactured and smuggled into the country, thereby effectively bypassing import quality control checks and the payment of customs and excise duties," Zwane said.

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Mmamonnye Ngobeni said the illegal cigarette trade deprived the economy of millions of Rands and had "far reaching consequences for the economy of the country as a whole".
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"counterfeit" and "unlawfully manufactured" eh? What, has someone illegally made something - without our borders (as opposed to within) where we, you know, don't have jurisdiction - that now don't work as intended?
 
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