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Cigarette smuggling arrests

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DURR̓, May 19 – Police arrested two persons and a third was declared at large after there was discovered a network smuggling cigarettes through the ferries embarked at the western port city of Durres.
On Sunday evening police arrested Erion Lako, 30, and Rozarta Pango, 31, while Julian Shahini, 34, was declared at large. Police blocked some 2,000 packages of Marlboro cigarettes that were destined to avoid tax offices and be sold at a shop.(Tirana Times Staff)

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