Ontario police say a recent raid on a contraband cigarette factory on Canada’s largest First Nation reserve led to two arrests, the discovery of 13 foreign workers, and the seizure of over $10 million in illegal tobacco products.
The raid on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, roughly 100 kilometres southwest of Toronto, resulted in the seizure of more than 40,000 kilograms of contraband tobacco, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said in a June 17 release.
The cigarette plant was connected to a “non-indigenous criminal network,” the release said, and staffed by 13 people identified as foreign nationals. Police said the profits generated from the illegal tobacco production were being channelled into the external criminal enterprise….