Four men aged 46 to 35 were sentenced Tuesday evening to sentences of up to five years in prison, after the dismantling in the Toulouse area of a clandestine cigarette manufacturing factory using Polish tobacco.
The four men, a Kazakh aged 43, an Azerbaijani aged 35, and two Ukrainians, aged 35 and 46, were notably prosecuted for importing and possessing contraband tobacco “
in an organized gang”
and
“industrial production of contraband goods
.
A search carried out on December 18 led to the seizure of 570 kilos of tobacco, 2.2 million cigarettes and packaging, as well as four machine tools used for making and packaging cigarettes.
The police found there enough to make 21,000 cartons of cigarettes, a turnover exceeding one million euros.