Knockoff-cigarettes pipeline sends man to prison [Florida]

From: Sun-Sentinal

Paula McMahon

A man who admitted he trafficked knockoff cigarettes with a retail value of about $5.5 million to South Florida via India and Dubai was sentenced Friday to 16 months in federal prison.

The case involved more than 51,500 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes — which prosecutors say often contain dangerous levels of arsenic and other noxious substances

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