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Greece seeks to plug 'Bermuda Triangle' of lost taxes

New govt hopes to raise money to pay off country's massive debts by stamping out fuel, cigarette fraud

Published Fri, Mar 6, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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    Athens

    IT COULD be a scene from a thriller: a ghost ship abandoned in the crystal-clear bay of a Greek island, its hold crammed with millions of illegal cigarettes, the crew nowhere to be seen.

    And no one knows where the freighter Amaranthus or its cargo were bound for when it beached on the island of Zanthe off the Ionian coast of western Greece in December.

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