OLAF HAILS SUCCESSFUL CHINA COUNTERFEIT CIGARETTE RAID
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF, with German and Polish police have broken an international cigarette smuggling ring, arresting 26 people and seizing millions of sticks. The arrests were made in Poland and Germany by the Polish Centralne Biuro ?ledcze (its national police central investigation bureau) and Germany's Zollkriminalamt (its customs investigation service). These criminals were - claimed OLAF - "the presumed main organisers of the smuggling gang", who smuggled "millions of cigarettes into the EU from former ...
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