Customs officers  at Lok Ma Chau control point have arrested a 48-year-old driver for smuggling 1.1 million duty-not-paid cigarettes worth $2.7 million, with a duty potential of about $1.8 million.

The officers stopped an incoming cross-boundary lorry declared to have 880 boxes of moulds and plastic toys at about 6.30am today.

They found the illicit cigarettes in 90 cartons, mixed with other goods and concealed in the rear of the lorry.

They also seized the lorry.