{"id":1965,"date":"2013-09-18T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T03:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/09\/18\/cheap-furniture-scam-up-in-smoke-in-cyprus-haul\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T03:32:39","slug":"cheap-furniture-scam-up-in-smoke-in-cyprus-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/cheap-furniture-scam-up-in-smoke-in-cyprus-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap furniture scam up in smoke in Cyprus haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap furniture scam up in smoke in Cyprus haul<br \/>\nNICOSIA (Reuters) &#8211; Authorities in Cyprus seized hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contraband cigarettes<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nThursday a local man tried to smuggle into the country as cheap furniture.<br \/>\nADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The seizure, one of the largest of its kind on the Mediterranean island where 40 percent of the population smoke, has a potential tax bill exceeding $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of cartons of cigarettes packed in bales were imported in a shipping container from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The final destination for the cigarettes appeared to be Cyprus.<br \/>\n&#8220;The owner had billed the shipment as furniture and had paid import duties of 960 pounds. We found cigarettes instead which have an import bill of 741,700 pounds, plus VAT,&#8221; Customs Department chief investigator Nikki Hadjiyianni told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A Greek Cypriot was in custody on suspicion of attempted fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap furniture scam up in smoke in Cyprus haul NICOSIA (Reuters) &#8211; Authorities in Cyprus seized hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contraband cigarettes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}