A man has been arrested and thousands of illegal cigarettes and seized after a police raid.

Mobile phones and more than £25,000 have also been taken after officers stopped a car in Ashford .

The vehicle was searched following the stop in Chart Road, at around 9.20am on Saturday.

Officers seized the Volkswagen Passat as part of the investigation, before searching a property in Luddenham Close.

Around 5,000 packets of cigarettes have been seized, and a police spokesman said that inquiries into their origin are ongoing.

A 46-year-old man from the Ashford area was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and has since been bailed until Monday, November 16.

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