Customs officers have shut down a mobile illicit cigarette distribution centre in a Kwai Chung industrial building car park.

Yesterday's raid saw 1.496 million cigarettes, worth $2.1 million and with duty potential of $1.2 million, seized. Most were counterfeit. It was the third case of "speedy distribution" of illicit cigarettes cracked in a week.

Officers arrested three men, aged 29 to 47. They will be charged under Trade Descriptions Ordinance and will appear in Tsuen Wan Magistracy tomorrow.