Customs officers made another sting at the weekend, when they caught six men smuggling in excess of four million cigarettes and seven tons of tobacco into Slovakia.
The six men, 2 Slovaks and 4 Bulgarians, were arrested on Saturday with the contraband tobacco, which was produced at some illegal plant. The men could now face jail time of up to 8 years.
If the goods had made it onto the market, Slovakia would have been deprived of around a million euro in duty.