Custom officials have seized about 15 million smuggled cigarette papers in Western Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported.

According to a ministry statement, officials got a tip that a shipment of illegal filter-tipped cigarette papers would be brought into the country through the Kapikule border gate in the Edirne province, which borders Bulgaria. Officials found 14.75 million filter-tipped rolling papers and 120 cigarette rolling machines. The market value of the smuggled goods is worth some TRY 2 million (USD 340,671), the report said.