Rs. 550 mn cigarette bust

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Sri Lanka Customs seized a cigarette consignment worth Rs. 550 million that had been falsely declared as ‘cool panels’, uncovering an attempted Rs. 450 million tax evasion at the Rank Container Terminal (RCT). Pix by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe

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Rs. 550 mn cigarette bust

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