Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a four part documentary from NSC TV on the flow of illicit tobacco into Brazil’s Santa Catarina state. Text translated from the Portuguese original.
From: Globo.com | Santa Catarina
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Pedro Rockenbach e Leandro Carbone durante a reportagem (Foto: Pedro Rockenbach/Arquivo Pessoal)
NSC News presents on Wednesday (16), the premiere of the television news on NSC TV, the first report in the series “The smoke of crime.” The series of four chapters that aired until Saturday (19) is a documentary about the performance of organized crime in contraband cigarettes in Paraguay. The reporting team traveled more than five thousand kilometers in Paraguay and in four Brazilian states for three months.
“Cigarette smuggling generates fortunes at the same time as it causes deaths, corruption on the roads, theft of cars, exploitation of people. Today, it goes hand in hand with drug trafficking, and in the last three years, seizures have tripled in the state. Before, cars were taken with small amounts; Now, trucks, huge warehouses are being spotted, a phenomenon that scares even the authorities, “commented investigative reporter Pedro Rockenbach.
