Judge investigates cigarette gangs

By ETCO

Source: Todo Dia - SP - 05/11/2009

Judge Sylvia Marlene de Castro Figueiredo, from the 3rd Federal Court of Sorocaba, accepted a complaint from the Federal Public Ministry and opened a case against one of the largest cigarette smuggling gangs in the state. The leader of the gang, Edinaldo Sebastião da Silva, known as 'Roberto', had the preventive detention required, but the judge did not grant it. He will respond in freedom to the fifth case on the same crime. The action refers to the seizure of 550 packets of banned import cigarettes.