CHENNAI: Sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have seized 4.6 lakh suspected fake cigarette sticks at Chennai port. These cigarettes were smuggled from Thailand and worth Rs 9.2 crore.
Based on specific information that fake cigarettes were being smuggled via sea from Thailand, DRI sleuths searched a container that reached Chennai port in a ship. The container had been declared to carry a tabletop fireplace. However, when DRI sleuths opened the container, they found foreign brand cigarettes concealed in it.
