CAIRO – Egypt said on Monday it seized more than 64 million packs of smuggled cigarettes in May, of which over two million were counterfeit.The customs authorities at Port Said confiscated about 56 million packs before they could enter the country, the interior ministry said.At the same port, 5.9 million packs that were being shipped from the United Arab Emirates to Ukraine were also seized.At the Red Sea port of Ein Sokhna, about 1.1 million counterfeit packs were found before they could enter Egypt.Another one million counterfeit packs were confiscated by the police at the Suez canal.The World Health Organisation …read more
Source: AsiaOne
