PF arrests members of cigarette smuggling gang based in BH

By ETCO
17/06/2015

Three people were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of being part of a criminal group for smuggling cigarettes of Paraguayan origin. The arrests were made by the Federal Police (PF) at the gang's operational bases, in Belo Horizonte and in Catanduva, in the interior of São Paulo, during Operation Macaia.

One of the detainees is the leader of the gang. The researchers' suspicion is that he is the largest smuggled cigarette trader in Minas Gerais. The distribution of the product also reached the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sergipe.

Source: Itatiaia.com.br website (15/06)

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