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Two held with Rs 8.49 million foreign cigarette haul at Katunayake
Two Sri Lankan air passengers were arrested in the early hours of today, the 19th, for illegally bringing a stock of foreign-made cigare
Summary
They were taken into custody at the Katunayake airport by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau. Police said the first suspect was a 38-year-old resident of Minuwangoda, a police officer who had served at the airport and retired on medical grounds. He arrived at Katunayake at 2.13 am from Sharjah on Air Arabia flight G9-587, carrying two bags.
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Organisations
- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
- Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
- Criminal Investigation Department
- Airport Police Narcotics Bureau
- Indian Ministry of Finance
- Police Narcotics Bureau
- Navy
- Sri
Places
- Sri Lanka3
- Katunayake airport
- Nagapattinam
- Minuwangoda
- Trincomalee
- Katunayake
- Tamil Nadu
- Puttalam
Keywords
- over2
- apprehended
- cigarette
- smuggling
- suspected
- arrested
- smuggled
- suspects
- arrests
- attempt
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