Police smash multi-million Pula cigarettes racket

Friday, June 25, 2010

Police believe they smashed illicit cross-border trade when 26 bails of 'Made in Zimbabwe' cigarettes were intercepted as they were about to be smuggled into South Africa at Rakhuna-Ramatlabama border post on Monday morning.

The cigarettes were worth over P1 million, according to police valuation.

Ramatlabama Station Commander Mokumako Tshegofatso says a patrol team of police and soldiers disturbed 13 men from South Africa found at the scene with the intention to pick the parcel, which had been earlier dropped there by a truck from Zimbabwe.

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