Spanish police raided three clandestine tobacco factories earlier this year, seizing nearly €40 million worth of tobacco leaf and illicit cigarettes. At one, in the northern town of Alfaro, they found 10 Ukrainian workers, five of them war refugees, who d been put to work with no contracts and scant pay, police said. They worked all […]
Criminal gangs establish secret cigarette manufacturing facilities in the EU, leading to a surge in in counterfeit tobacco seizures, while workers endure ‘slavery’ conditions
Spanish police raided three clandestine tobacco factories early this year, seizing nearly 40 million euros worth of tobacco leaf and illicit cigarettes.. | June 1, 2023
Spanish police raided three clandestine tobacco factories early this year, seizing nearly 40 million euros ($44 million) worth of tobacco leaf and illicit cigarettes.