Spanish police raid illegal tobacco factories accused of exploiting Ukrainian refugees



Spanish authorities raided three illegal tobacco factories that were allegedly exploiting Ukrainian refugees, who were working in poor condition. The Spanish Guardia Civil police and Europol seized more than 3.5 million packets of untaxed tobacco from the three factories, worth almost $20 million.

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20 comments

  1. O'Snap, STOP! Those cigarettes have nicotine in them!! Meanwhile on the second floor they're rolling Caviar Joints……..

  2. Man look at all that illegal marijauna 😮

  3. Spanish officials care more about tobacco than ours do about fentanyl?

  4. whos the real thief? the police or the factory ….

  5. No wonder slot of Arminians and Ukrainians pen a lot of tobacco spots

  6. Classified Documents found there too!

  7. O my …
    There are ALWAYS some who are ready to exploit vulnerable people. Vulnerable doesn't mean weak. Vulnerable means circumstances, environmental, relational, and other hardship that happened without the person bring it upon themselves.
    Who is stronger? The one who exploits the vulnerable or the vulnerable who is trying to survive? Even when it seems everything is against them.
    Some people are coward monsters who have no limit, dignity and consciousness when it is about their pocket and to put even a penny more in, no matter what it takes and who it hurts.

  8. Rtve denounced too by me for genocide at the icc.

  9. America would never bring in foreign workers and exploit their labor for profit. Unless Nancy Pelosi needs someone to pick the vegetables.

  10. Deleted repeat it…Rtve denounced for genocide at icc.

  11. Companies like that disgust me. How dare they force these Ukrainian refugees to be exploited in an illegal operation

  12. I'll inform Congress !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    People's Deputy of Ukraine Khalimon bought himself an elite property in Kyiv !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    He took (stole) money from American aid. We learned that he is a close friend of Zelensky. He is a member of the party led by Zelensky.

    Please start an investigation.

    Rukh party leader

  13. Cmon man..everyone deserves a pack

  14. No audio, pictures would have given more information.

  15. This is horrible. To think that someone would give these people a job instead of letting them get blown to pieces for a proxy war is despicable. And why shouldn't the government be upset that they are not getting their money for your choice to consume poison. Every time you hurt yourself a rich person should at least make a dollar. I mean to them you are their property and owe them for your life.

  16. So getting a Ukrainian mail order husband is off the tables then?

  17. Looks as if the EU has created a black market

  18. Make an example of them

  19. Ukraine is one of the main producers of contraband cigarettes that are sent to Europe. And where there is smuggling,
    there is tax evasion, migrant traffic from Asia, Africa, crime, etc. Ukraine is a very criminal and corrupt state, but because of the war, everyone forgives her.