Category: clandestine

Big Tobacco Faces Big EU Counterfeit Problem

MADRID—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….


Mexico Finds 11 Bodies in Clandestine Pits Near US Border

MEXICO CITY—Authorities in northern Mexico say volunteer searchers have found 11 bodies in clandestine burial pits just a few miles from the U.S. border. The government of Sonora state said late Monday the bodies included nine men and two women. Sonora has been locked in a bloody three-way turf battle between rival factions of the…