A Major Raid on Cigarette Smuggling: Clandestine Factories and Deals Worth Hundreds of Millions. 23 Arrests in Turin.

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Fake Marlboro was produced: 35 million packages. Those who packed them in hidden sites couldn't even see the light of day.

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TURIN – A perfectly structured transnational criminal organization, capable of setting up actual clandestine factories hidden in Turin's industrial areas and churning out up to 48,000 packets of lager a day, primarily destined for Northern European markets. This is the shocking picture that emerged from Operation Chain Smoking, conducted jointly by the Guardia di Finanza (PEF Unit) and the Carabinieri (Venaria Reale Company), under the direction…