From: Mail Online
- 8.5 million cigarettes found in fabric shipping container from Malaysia
- Haul ‘would have been sold illegally at markets, pubs, car boots sales’
- Suffolk Border Force handed the batch to National Grid to burn for energy
By Mail On Sunday Reporter and Mia De Graaf
A haul of 8.5 million cigarettes is to be incinerated to provide power for the National Grid.
They were found in a shipping container from Malaysia – which was supposed to contain fabric – at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk by Border Force officers.
It is believed the cigarettes would have been sold illegally at markets, pubs and car boot sales, depriving the UK Treasury of about £2.5 million in tax.
