Editor’s Note: See the start of NSC TV’s series on the illicit tobacco that is flowing into Brazil’s Santa Catarina state. Text translated from the Portuguese original.
From: Globo.com | Santa Catarina
Documentário revela como contrabando de cigarro financia o tráfico de drogas e armas
The first report of the series ‘The Smoke of Crime’, in the NSC News, showed the work that fights this type of crime, increasingly common in SC.
Seizure of smuggled cigarettes has increased in Santa Catarina, according to the Federal Revenue and Federal Highway Police (PRF). Officials say money from this crime funds drug and arms trafficking. In addition, contraband cigarettes do not go through quality control, which further damages the health of those who consume.
The first report of the series “The Smoke of Crime” showed the work of those who fight smuggling, profits for criminals and the alert for those who buy this type of cigarette ( See the video above).
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