A 46-year-old Greek trucker is being investigated following the discovery of 2.2m cigarettes in his truck on Monday 26 July at Dover's eastern docks. The duty evaded on the goods is around £500,000.
UK Border Agency officers searched the lorry which had driven off a ferry from France. The cigarettes were found "within white plastic bags the size of bales of hay", a spokesman for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) says.
The HGV driver was arrested, interviewed and subsequently released on bail pending further enquiries.
"Cigarette and tobacco smuggling is not a harmless tax fiddle. It harms honest businesses and costs the UK Billions of pounds in lost revenue," the HMRC spokesman concludes.
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