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Linked to Cigarette Smuggling: Businessman From Concepción Is Held in Pretrial Detention for Washing - La Tercera

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In pretrial detention, the businessman Pablo Aranda Contreras remained, after the chief prosecutor of Tomé, Ana María Aldana, formalized him for laundering assets from cigarette smuggling.The inquiry began after Carabineros controlled a van at the Agua Amarilla toll of Tomé and discovered a shipment of almost 18 thousand packs of counterfeit cigarettes, on 19 May 2024. Then, Aranda was formalized by contraband.With this precedent, the Investigat…

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In pretrial detention, the businessman Pablo Aranda Contreras remained, after the chief prosecutor of Tomé, Ana María Aldana, formalized him for laundering assets from cigarette smuggling.The inquiry began after Carabineros controlled a van at the Agua Amarilla toll of Tomé and discovered a shipment of almost 18 thousand packs of counterfeit cigarettes, on 19 May 2024. Then, Aranda was formalized by contraband.With this precedent, the Investigat…

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The owner of a clothing trade located in the Pasaje Musalem de Concepción, Region of the Biobío, was arrested for his alleged involvement in crimes of cigarette smuggling and money laundering. The Public Prosecutor’s Office also investigates his links with criminal organizations operating in the southern part of the country. Following the hearing of formalization for money laundering derived from cigarette smuggling, businessman Pablo Aranda Con…

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Pablo Aranda Contreras (43) was held in pretrial detention after he was formally laundered by the smuggling of cigarettes. The investigation began in May 2024 after Carabineros controlled a van at Agua Amarilla toll, municipality of Tomé, and discovered a shipment of nearly 18 thousand packs of counterfeit cigarettes and was formalized on that occasion by contraband.

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La Tercera broke the news in Chile on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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