Editor’s Note: The State Department along with Departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services warned that cigarette smuggling “Enables corruption and undermines good governance.” The news from Canada below, confirms the warnings, a Canada Border Services Agency officer has been charged with facilitating the “smuggling truckloads of contraband tobacco into Canada from the United States.” The American tobacco smuggled into Canada is turned into illicit cigarettes which are sold to children in Canada and the US and which fuel organized crime and violence throughout the Americas.
From: The Star
The arrest came after an investigation on a criminal organization that was allegedly smuggling contraband into Canada from the U.S.
The Mounties allege the activities were facilitated by a CBSA officer working at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. Chad Gale of Welland, Ontario is charged with breach of trust by a public officer. (Marcus Oleniuk/Toronto Star / Toronto Star)
By The Canadian Press
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The Mounties say the arrest came as part of a joint forces investigation that focused on a criminal organization that was allegedly smuggling truckloads of contraband tobacco into Canada from the United States.
They allege the group’s smuggling activities were facilitated by a CBSA border services officer working at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ont.
