Meanwhile, as it happens, tehelka and its financial backers have found themselves the target of investigations of their own: from the customs, police, tax and anti-corruption authorities.
"The customs police at the border don't tax fairly, there may be 1,000 ice-creams but they will only tax 200 of them.
Truck drivers could load containers and drive right out of the port, bribing the customs police to let them through without checking documents.
Bavarian customs police first became suspicious of Mr Gurlitt in the summer of 2010 after they carried out a routine search for currency smugglers on a train bound from Switzerland to Munich.
More than 900 other migrants were picked up by coastguard and customs police boats, while the rest were rescued by various ships in the area, the TV station said.
Larry Rohter ASIA CHINA: SMUGGLING TRIALS -- Trials will begin today in China's largest corruption scandal, the vast smuggling of goods through the southern port of Xiamen in a case that has implicated scores of senior customs, police and Communist Party officials.
On Thursday customs police in Hangzhou unveiled 270kg of ivory artworks and 9kg of rhino horn captured by an anti-smuggling operation that has been running in the city since June 2014.
If Chinese reporters had a longer leash, it would be inconceivable for a smuggling ring in the southern city of Xiamen to bribe hundreds of top customs, police and party officials for years without exposure.
To confuse things, some poorly made counterfeits are made illegally in Cuba itself and sold to tourists (many of whom have their dud purchases taken away by customs police at the airport).The people at Habanos are aware of the growing risk to the prestige of Cuban cigars.
In April, the customs police held a news conference to announce that a two-day "antismuggling operation" had resulted in the breaking up of three "syndicates," the arrest of 10 people and the seizure of nearly 220 pounds of formula worth $3,500.
