It does not pay to smuggle

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Custom officers at the Colombo Port are seen inspecting perfumes, shoes and other luxury items worth Rs.15 million imported by a BOI registered poultry farm. They are alleged to have smuggled 23 container-loads of such luxury items out of the Port this year. Pic by Kushan Pathiraja

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Hussain Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:26 AM

Maybe they have fashionable 'chickens' in this farm!

Hussain Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:27 AM

That to me looks like a chickens shoe and of course chickens too need perfume,

joker Saturday, 23 June 2012 06:46 AM

tip of the iceberg!!!!!!!!!!!!!

balu Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:44 PM

officers seem happy. they are the most corrupt next to politicians

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