Smuggling Ring Uncovered!

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Smuggling Ring Uncovered!

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Gabby Newsome here with the News You Can Use.

Hello and good day Captains,

Jimmy fingers recently joined the move toward dealing with the secure store and was swiftly followed by the Exile Foundry.

I decided to do a little digging behind the scenes to see what this sudden change was all about and guess what I found?

It appears a huge smuggling ring has been at work throughout the known galaxies.

As you all know smuggling is quite difficult, what with the automatic weighing of the ship and all its contents down to the half-kilo (no cheating on your diet captains) and various other tracking mechanisms on all cargo and passengers. Well it appears an enterprising criminal element found a loophole, the ships secure storage.

A three year long investigation led to the arrest of several individuals. An insider hacked the secure storage records of thousands of ships. Working in conjunction with ground crews of the various legal commercial businesses they would on-load an undocumented item (whether it was to avoid taxation or it was actually illegal) and add a false entry into the commercial storage weight table, accounting for the additional weight.

Just so the above is not misunderstood, this was done without the businesses or the captains knowledge! Gal-fed is currently reviewing records of Captains who were charged with smuggling, but denied all wrong-doing. It appears many of them may have indeed been innocent.

Gal-Fed is also currently preparing for the certain deluge of law-suits surrounding these cases and refused to make any comment regarding compensation for these captains.

This is Gabby Newsome, signing off.
Star Field Reporter - ISN NEWS
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