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Prague Monitor / Czech News in English > Yaël Ossowski

Yaël Ossowski

UN diplomats lived large on smuggled tobacco

2016-10-02
By: Katerina Svobodova
On: October 2, 2016
In: National
Tagged: Prague Daily Monitor, Yaël Ossowski

Flashy BMW cars, a pristine villa in downtown Geneva, United Nations diplomatic credentials, and close to 2.2 million EUR in profit: welcome to the lucrative life of a UN cigarette smuggler. In August, two employees of the diplomatic mission of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland were accused of abusing their diplomatic status to illegally funnel over 600,000 cigarettes into France over the course of 3 years in order to sell on the black market. The plan involved using a German firm to acquire heaps of duty-free cigarettes, only to have them stored in a warehouse near the Geneva airport and eventually trucked to the Rennes region of France to have them sold on the street. The accusedContinue Reading

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