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Border force officials have seized eight million contraband cigarettes at Belfast port.
It's the biggest seizure there in 6 years.
The discovery was made in a 40ft container which had arrived on a ship from Singapore on Saturday.
The load was listed as bed linen with a delivery address in county Down.
But during a search the officers discovered 40 pallets with a total of 800 boxes containing the cigarettes.
Had the cigarettes made it through - it's estimated it could have cost the treasury more than 2.5 million pounds in unpaid duty and VAT.
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