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Tobacco Companies Linked To Criminal Organizations In Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling

Number 18524
Subject Tobacco
Source Center for Public Integrity
State Washington, D.C.
Year 2001
Publication Date March 3
Summary The Center For Public Integrity explores and investigates the complicity of major cigarette companies in black market smuggling across the globe fueled by a desire for profits. Included with the articles are numerous documents, court files and transcripts which show the cigarette companies' role in these illegal operations which have been linked to gangs, organized crime and murders.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 179
Keywords tobacco;cigarette smuggling;cigarette companies;money laundering;gangs;organized crime;RICO act;FOIA
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