KwaDukuza cluster task team and crime intelligence officers recovered 92 boxes of counterfeit cigarettes worth more than R1,3million in Durban on Friday last week.
A 59-year-old man was arrested and charged with possession of counterfeit cigarettes.
Officers received information about the cigarettes at a house in Loyde Place, Malvern.
A search yielded 92 boxes, each containing 50 cartons of cigarettes without the prescribed health warning.
The man will appear in the Pinetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday, November 25.
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