From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fourteen people have been indicted on federal charges and accused of a “large-scale,” multi-million dollar conspiracy to smuggle cigarettes from low tax states like Missouri to states where taxes are many times higher.
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Yakov Pisman, Oleksandr Zyuz, Sergei Kishchenko, Oleg Deych, Svetlana Kishchenko, Volodymyr Zyuz, Mykhalo Zyuz, Aleksandr Arbitman, Oleg Godko, Jacob Sheyn, Vyacheslav Gershanovich, Inessa Vatman, Max Tkach and Roman Karapchuk were indicted on a series of contraband cigarette trafficking charges.
