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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Richa Naidu, Emma Pinedo and Emilio Parodi

Big Tobacco faces big EU counterfeit problem

Packs of euro banknotes are seen during a raid where more than 3.5 million packets of contraband tobacco were seized, in Seville, Spain, in this picture released on January 22, 2023. Guardia Civil/Handout via REUTERS

Spanish police raided three clandestine tobacco factories early this year, seizing nearly 40 million euros ($44 million) worth of tobacco leaf and illicit cigarettes.

At one, in the northern town of Alfaro, they found 10 Ukrainian workers, five of them war refugees, who'd been put to work with no contracts and scant pay, police said. They worked all day for and lived at the factory, forbidden from leaving.

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