630,000 units of smuggled cigarettes from Haiti of Capital brand (3,150 cartridges of 10 packs of 20 cigarettes) contained in 63 cardboard boxes were seized in a house located in the Los Espartillos sector of the municipality of Jimaní (Province of Independencia)

n its report, the 5th Infantry Brigade of the army of the Dominican Republic indicates that the house was raided following a work of the intelligence service (G-2) informing them that contraband cigarettes had been introduced on Dominican territory and hidden in this house.

So far this year, authorities have seized a large number of cigarettes of various brands, narcotics, alcohol and other goods smuggled from Haiti, and have arrested several people linked to these traffics.

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