From: Toronto Sun
THOMAS LESNAK, SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO SUN
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Seven-hundred police officers conducted 70 raids, arresting nearly 60 people to break up a vast cross-border tobacco smuggling ring accused of using profits to purchase cocaine and launder money as far away as Europe, while defrauding the Canadian government of half a billion dollars in lost tax revenue.
The sheer size and scope of this criminal enterprise, and the police operation required to break it up, grabbed headlines across North America.
