article_snippet: Fifty-five of the tree trunks had been hollowed out and the tree trunks ends replaced to carry the massive illicit load .
article_snippet: Border guard spokesman Arkhip Glazkov said: 'As a result of a random check we discovered one of the tree trunks appeared to have been tampered with, and after looking more closely it was found that the tree trunk and been hollowed out and packed with cigarettes, and then the end of the tree trunk had been replaced to cover up the crime. '
article_snippet: In total they discovered the fraud recovered 25,000 packets of cigarettes hidden inside 27 tons of timber where 55 of the tree trunks turned out to have been tampered with.
article_snippet: 25,000 packets of cigarettes hidden inside 27 tons of timber where 55 of the tree trunks turned out to have been tampered were bound for Germany and then the UK before 25,000 packets of cigarettes hidden inside 27 tons of timber where 55 of the tree trunks turned out to have been tampered were intercepted .
article_snippet: Border guard spokesman Arkhip Glazkov said: 'As a result of a random check we discovered one of the trunks appeared to have been tampered with' Twenty-seven tons of timber had been tampered with in the audacious attempted smuggling operation .
highlights_snippet: Twenty-five-thousand packets were concealed inside 27 tons of timber .
  
highlights_snippet: Fifty-five of the tree trunks had been doctored and the ends replaced .