Custom House, Chattogram yesterday seized 1.62 crore fake cigarette tax stamps, worth Tk 120 crore, illegally brought from China.

Arafat Enterprise, a Chattogram-based trading company, declared that it had imported "A-4" paper from China's Digi Anti-Fake (Shenzhen) Co Ltd.

Customs officials found the stamps hidden inside the shipment.

A week ago, another Chattogram-based company, Bappu Enterprise, was caught bringing in 3.2 crore fake stamps worth Tk 143 crore from the same source by declaring import of 15 tonnes of art paper.

According to the customs sources, the false declarations were identified by Port Control Unit analysing documents and trading history.

The unit was set up by the Chattogram port with support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime mainly to identify illegal goods and drugs, they said.