3 tonnes of tobacco, 2 million cigarettes seized at EU’s external borders
Frontex coordinated an international operation against cigarette smuggling, document fraud, migrant smuggling and smuggling of firearms at EU’s external borders.
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Counterfeit tobacco products worth EUR 17 million seized in France
During the raids last week, the French officers arrested nine suspects, most of them Moldovan nationals. The gendarmes discovered a
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The illegal tobacco cutter was closed
Officers from the Operations and Investigations Department of the Border Guard in Przemyśl, together with the officers of the Silesian
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Armenian criminal gang dismantled in France over counterfeit cigarettes
A total of 11 individuals suspected of being part of an Armenian organised crime group involved in the large-scale import
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Europol supports Belgian authorities in shutting down an illegal cigarette factory
With the support of Europol’s European Financial Economic Crime Centre (EFECC), a massive illegal cigarette factory has been raided and
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Production line of counterfeit cigarettes flooding the French market dismantled in Slovenia
An illegal production line of cigarettes flooding the French market with millions of counterfeit cigarettes has been dismantled in Slovenia
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