# Border police and joint tactical teams have intensified operations against cigarette smuggling, intercepting several multimillion-rand contraband shipments. At Beitbridge, a 44-year-old foreign national was arrested after 460 boxes of illicit cigarettes, valued at about 2.1-million-rand, were allegedly found hidden in a freight truck. Similar seizures worth around two-million-rand have been reported at Groblersbridge and Mabeskraal. Authorities say the operations form part of an intensified crackdown on cross-border trafficking.
Border police seize R2.1 Million in illegal cigarettes