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NEWS | Wednesday, 17 December 2008

AFM seize contraband cigarettes

An Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat intercepted a cabin cruiser in Grand Harbour, finding 47 stacks of contraband cigarettes.
The boat was seen last night navigating without lights, raising suspicions with its manoeuvring.
On noticing the fast approaching Maritime Squadron’s patrol boat, the sole male passenger onboard, a Maltese national, was observed ditching an object into the sea and then switch on his vessel’s navigation lights.
The AFM personnel immediately detained the vessel and following a search onboard, found some 47 stacks of cigarettes in the ditched object which was recovered from the sea.
The cabin cruiser’s driver, who owns a resupply barge that had just been alongside a larger merchant ship in harbour, was immediately arrested and taken to the Old Customs’ House to waiting Police authorities. Police Inspector James Grech from the Valletta police station is investigating, and an inquiry is now underway.

 


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