The customs officers waved the delivery van through and sent us on our way.
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As a result of the exercise customs officers from the regional strike force and local anti-smuggling staff, netted 157, 000 cigarettes including 117, 000 from the Alicante flight.
For years after, whenever I stopped in Delhi on assignment, the High Commission would politely ask me if I'd decided what to do with Ronnie's duck guns, which the great man had left at our diplomatic mission, presumably because he felt the fearsome Indian customs officers might create such a fuss his own exit might be delayed.
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Stefan Kalman, a senior detective in the Swedish drug squad, says customs officers catch smugglers on the border several times a week.
The combined efforts of police, customs officers and informers lead to the seizure of perhaps 30% of the world's heroin and cocaine output.
Odesnik, ranked 98 in the world, was stopped by customs officers when he arrived in the country for the Brisbane International, ahead of the Australian Open in January.
The haul was seized by Customs officers in March last year while four of the men were enjoying a celebration drink.
The Afghan government had issued directives to customs officers to help speed the process, said Mohammad Zaher Ansari, deputy director of the Afghan customs office in Hairaton, the crossing into Uzbekistan.
The changes came about following the retirement of two customs officers.
Other controls will prohibit people from taking more than 1, 000 euros in cash outside the island, with customs officers authorised to make checks at border crossings.
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Six Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Marine Enforcement Officers serving aboard the Australian Customs and Border Protection Vessel Triton, and 12 members of the Australian Defence Force serving on the patrol boat HMAS Pirie, nominated by Australia, for rescuing 41 survivors from a small wooden vessel which had smashed against rocks off Christmas Island, in December 2010, with an estimated 70 to 100 persons on board.
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Some 24 illegal biodiesel sites have been shut down by Revenue and Customs officers in the last 11 months.
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The idea is to help customs officers, art dealers and collectors identify items that may have been sacked or stolen.
Travellers were also warned to expect delays on arrival at UK ports and airports on Thursday as hundreds of immigration and customs officers joined the action.
French Customs officers spotted the swindle and called in investigators.
After customs officers confiscated the cash, they let Wilson go.
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Not all the owners are inclined to make a fuss, which may in the past have led local customs officers to think they are on to a good thing.
Other the past few weeks MPs have been hearing evidence from police officers, customs officials and representatives of the tobacco and fuel industry on the extent of smuggling in Northern Ireland.
Customs officers stationed at the airport monitor planes as they taxi in, then board as soon as the engines shut down to inspect passengers.
Sonnier also said the decision highlights the need to make trademark counterfeiting a crime in Canada and to grant Customs officers in Canada ex-officio authority to seize counterfeit goods at the border.
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Customs and police officers searched the units in the Jonesborough area on Wednesday morning.
The irony is, tax collectors and customs officers are exactly what Greece needs more of.
The suspect, whose former girlfriend claimed he had raped her, was at a gate inside Terminal 4 waiting to board an 8:40 a.m. flight to London when he was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, the official said.
The FBI collected evidence by providing Guido Antonini Wilson, whose bag carrying the money was confiscated by the Argentine customs authority after he landed in Buenos Aires in a plane accompanied by high officers of the Kirchner government.
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But customs officers can hardly start opening all the post entering a country as sales over the Net expand.
Islanders recovered hundreds of cases of whisky from the wreck and some of the bottles were buried to keep them hidden from customs officers.
Within months, alleging sinister pressures, he fled to the United States, only to be held by customs officers for carrying too many undeclared dollars.
So it is not surprising that Indonesian customs officers burned an early consignment of the book, although the action seemed to to be the result of a lower-level misunderstanding rather than orders from the top.
Customs officials raided the most prominent retailers, and assigned officers to permanent anti-piracy patrol.
Customs officers said non-EU nationals coming to the island and "engaging in musical activity" needed approval.
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