SOPHISTICATED FAKE EUROPEAN TOBACCO SMUGGLING SYSTEM UNVEILED IN GERMANY COURT
March 1st, 2013
A COMPLEX international supply web supporting an illicit business of tobacco counterfeiters, losing European Union (EU) governments Euro EUR50 million in duties, has been unveiled in a German court. Details were revealed in a case at the Berlin-Moabit criminal court convicting a German-Russian co-national to nine years jail. He ran illegal tobacco factories in Poland the breakaway Transnistria region of Moldova which smuggled 1,200 tonnes of tobacco from 2006 to 2011. These were closed after an investigation involving police from Germany, Poland, Belgium, Latvia, ...
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