Police in southwest China's Yunnan Province caught a suspect and seized 9.52 tonnes of illegally transported flue-cured tobacco in a recent smuggling case, reported Xinhua.

After receiving a tip that someone was planning to smuggle a batch of illegally purchased flue-cured tobacco into Myanmar, the police set up a task force to investigate. On May 4, they intercepted a suspected truck in the China-Myanmar border township Houqiao carrying a total of 9.52 tonnes of smuggled flue-cured tobacco, the report said.