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The Mafia Factory in Padua: How Italy Confirmed What Had Been Known for Years About the Moldovan "Drug Lord". Illegal Cigarettes, Black Money and Political Silence in Chisinau

Italy has closed a clandestine cigarette factory, the Republic of Moldova has… shut up. The Carabinieri raid in the province of Padua has brought to light not only an illegal production line capable of pouring millions of euros into the black economy, but also a name that has haunted journalistic investigations in Eastern Europe for years: Oleg Pruteanu. A character publicly described, repeatedly, as the “Drug Lord”, officially challenged, polit…
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Italy has closed a clandestine cigarette factory, the Republic of Moldova has… shut up. The Carabinieri raid in the province of Padua has brought to light not only an illegal production line capable of pouring millions of euros into the black economy, but also a name that has haunted journalistic investigations in Eastern Europe for years: Oleg Pruteanu. A character publicly described, repeatedly, as the “Drug Lord”, officially challenged, polit…

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Saptamana Financiara broke the news in on Friday, February 6, 2026.
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