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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9625
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fraud

International cigarette smuggling ring dismantled

Brussels, 18/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - An international criminal gang responsible for smuggling millions of cigarettes into the EU from former Soviet Union countries and China, to the detriment of the EU budget, has come to a dramatic end with the arrest of 26 people in Poland and Germany, including the presumed main organisers of the smuggling gang. This fortunate outcome comes after months of cooperation between the European Anti-Fruad Office (OLAF), the Polish Centralne Biuro Sledcze...

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