Editor’s Note: Illegally-made cigarettes have highly elevated levels of lead, cadmium and nicotine. See, Counterfeit Products, Genuine Harm: How Intellectual Property Theft Fuels Organized Crime While Undermining American Communities.
From: Birmingham Mail
Ten arrested over racket which churned out 35 million fags a month
An enormous bootleg tobacco factory – responsible for an eye-watering £138 milllion fraud – has been smashed in Birmingham.
Ten men, all from Brazil and Paraguay, are set to be deported after they were arrested in the raid.
