So the source of cigarettes was Kabul and Muscat, do they actually manufacture UK brand cigarettes there?
I know the ones smuggled to Spain from North Africa and on to the UK are mostly "knock-offs" whose main constituent is reputed to camel dung or other non-tobacco fillings but packaged beautifully.
I have seen it reported that the most lucrative forms of forgery are not currency but wine labels, scent labels and cigarette packaging.
The masterminds who designed this scheme could quite legitimately gone to Ostend and bought the same things tax free.
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