Sri Lanka Customs is set to destroy nearly 9,940,000 foreign cigarette sticks seized on information received by its intelligence unit. The illegally imported cigarettes have cost the government Rs. 695,800 in tax revenue, Customs officials said. | Daily Mirror

Sri Lanka Customs today seized the largest stock of ‘Magic Mushrooms’ in history worth over Rs.70 million along with a stock of other narcotic drugs from a parcel courier service in Seeduwa. The parcels had been sent from the USA and the Netherlands. Officials of the Customs Narcotic Control Unit followed an order to detain nine parcels that had arrived from the USA and the Netherlands a few weeks back, addressed to several local recipients. When the officials found out that the parcels had been