Revealed in police raid: Gang torn apart

Spanish police have carried out an operation against the gang that produces fake cigarettes with contraband tobacco in three different factories and employs Ukrainian immigrants in poor conditions. The police announced that they arrested 27 people in operations carried out at different homes and confiscated luxury vehicles and valuables worth millions of euros, including tobacco.

In a joint operation with the Spanish police and Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, they carried out an operation against three factories in the cities of Logroño, Valencia and Seville that produce fake tobacco and fake cigarettes.

Claiming that more than half a million fake cigarettes are produced daily in the factories, police said they arrested 27 people and confiscated millions of euros worth of tobacco, luxury vehicles and valuables.

THEY LIVE ON HIGH

Expressing that the Ukrainian immigrants fleeing the war in the factories in question worked long hours without being allowed to leave the buildings, the police emphasized that the Ukrainian immigrants lived in small prefabricated shelters inside the factory.

European-based non-governmental organizations drew attention to the fact that, after the occupation of Ukraine, many Ukrainian immigrants had to work informally and forcibly for low wages due to the need to find work quickly and the language problem.