Editor’s Note: Translation from the Spanish original.
From: elsalvador.com
The investigator said that it is documented that smuggling of illicit cigarettes finances activities of the El Salvador gang, known as Maras, and of drug trafficking groups in Belize.
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The companies behind the most recognized illegal brands in market research in Central America are owned by China Tobacco International, Grand River Entrerprises of Canada, and Overseas United Inc. (OUI), of Chinese origin that labels in Panama various brands that then placed in the countries of the region, according to the CID Gallup study.
