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Hajto found guilty of smuggling

POLAND international and Schalke star Tomasz Hajto has been fined ‚é¼180,000 by a German court after being found guilty of smuggling cigarettes.

German police had arrested a ring of Polish smugglers earlier this year and finally implicated the defender, who had stored more than 110 giant packages of illegal cigarettes in his house in Duisburg.

"Yes, I have been involved in big s*** here and I am terribly sorry for it," said Hajto.

"But I did not sell those cigarettes, for example I handed them to club fans for free."

Schalke 04 are yet to decide if they will also punish the player.