PF combats cigarette smuggling and avoids loss of almost R $ 105 million

By ETCO
19/11/2014

Guaíra - The Federal Police (PF), together with the Federal Revenue Service and the Federal Highway Police Internal Affairs Unit, launched Operation Delivery yesterday morning (17). The action dismantled a criminal organization that smuggled carts loaded with cigarettes of Paraguayan origin, across the borders of Paraná and transported them to the capital of São Paulo.

Investigations began a year ago. 21 people were arrested, five weapons were seized, as well as several vehicles. Approximately 150 federal police officers, 12 servers from the Federal Revenue Service and four from the Internal Revenue Service of the Federal Highway Police served 33 Warrants of Preventive Prison and 35 Search and Seizure Warrants distributed in the states of Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo.

(Source: Umuarama Ilustrado | 18/11/2014)
 
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