Customs inspectors at the Nitzana border crossing uncovered an attempt to smuggle cigarettes hidden in wooden planks on which a shipment of plastic utensils had been placed.
They arrived from Egypt and were addressed to an Arab importer from Hevron. Inside the planks, 2,688 packs of Manchester-made cigarettes worth about NIS 800,000, were hidden, with a tax value estimated at NIS 600,000.
Seventy-five kilograms of tobacco were also seized, which were hidden in 350 bags of coal loaded on a truck that made its way through the Kerem Shalom crossing. The value of the tobacco seized was NIS 110,565 with a tax value of NIS 94,815.