Smuggled cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco were found hidden from Van delivery of milk and found a cache hidden in a sewer at home milkman in the Black Country.
Customs officers seized illegal goods hidden among the milk after a search of the truck with a round in the area of Dudley. Cigarettes and tobacco were also discovered in a metal box under the hatch in the sewer to the Dudley.
Approximately 16000 cigarettes and 2,5 kg of hand rolling tobacco 4000 pounds were removed from 50-year-old man at the address on Saturday.
Cigarette brand Palace, Superkings and hand rolling tobacco is included drum and golden Virginia.
Employees were able to say they were smuggled in illegally from the sale of the packaging intended for sale abroad, and, incidentally, they were hidden.
Officials say the shelter under the hatch was developed through a tube lowered into the sewage works sewage where the metal plate was installed at the house of contraband goods.
Further studies are now underway in anticipation of potential criminal charges.
Senior detection of HM Revenue Customs, (HMRC) Keith Morgan said: "This latest seizure highlights the lengths smugglers will go to bid to make quick and easy money. We are constantly warning people about the dangers purchase cheap tobacco products that are unlicensed and unregulated .
"Unfortunately, this latest seizure shows that they were kept in the most unsanitary conditions imaginable - in the sewer.
"This discovery will shock the public and reinforce the importance of our message of nature and the antics of those who engage in this form of crime."
He added: "Our teams are active throughout the West Midlands and we need public support to help us continue to undermine the illicit trade in tobacco products.
"This nation is worth £ 3 billion a year in lost profits.
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