Editor’s Note: For a better understanding of GRE, see also Grand River Enterprises, Contraband Tobacco Villain or Hero?, Is Grand River Enterprises a Victim of a Failed Fight Against Contraband Tobacco?, Grand River Enterprises: Smuggling Cigarettes on Both Sides of the Atlantic?, and Grand River Enterprises: “our products are fully legal in Mexico.”
From: ElSalvador.com (translated from the original Spanish).
Grand River Enterprises has been sued for $ 350 Mlls. by New York
NEW YORK. Canadian tobacco giant Grand River Enterprises (GRE), manufacturer of cigarettes that have been seized by authorities in Costa Rica and Central America, including El Salvador, has been sued for $ 350 million by the State of New York, for allegedly distributing and selling cigarettes from contraband throughout the state.
Last week, the American newspaper “Hamilton Spectator” reported that, according to the invoices obtained by the State of New York, GRE introduced a minimum of 1,500 million cigarettes of contraband in New York in a period of 15 months, between 22 from November 2011 to February 2013, through Native Wholesale Supply, its partner and distributor arm in the United States currently in bankruptcy.
