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Around 60 investigators from HMRC, assisted by officers from South Yorkshire Police and Nottinghamshire Police carried out searches of commercial and residential properties in Doncaster (South Yorkshire), Retford and Newark (Nottinghamshire) as part of a long running operation codenamed Hornbeam which is investigating the evasion of excise duty on cigarettes and tobacco and money laundering.

The identities of those arrested has not been released: they have not been charged as at the time of writing and the operation is continuing.

Broad details of those arrested as as follows:

Doncaster: 2 males aged 27 and 26

Retford: 2 males aged 27 and 23

Newark: 1 male aged 47

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