From: Government of Manitoba
Manitoba Finance advises two individuals have been fined more than $2 million on charges related to the possession and sale of contraband tobacco.
Craig Blacksmith, the owner of asmoke shop at Dakota Plains First Nation and Tammy Walters, a shop employee, were fined on a number of charges stemming from a 2014 seizureby the RCMP and provincial taxation investigatorsof 951,225 non-Manitoba marked cigarettes, 1845 tins of chewing tobacco (snuff), six firearms, cash and one vehicle.
On June 16, 2016, Craig Blacksmith and Tammy Walters were each convicted of offences under the provincial Tobacco Tax Act and Tax Administration and Miscellaneous Taxes Act.
