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• Swiss charge 10 in mafia cigarette smuggling case  

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2008-10-06

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Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than US$1 billion during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation, Swiss authorities said Monday.

The defendants -- five Swiss, three Italians, a Spaniard and a Frenchman -- are accused of having used Switzerland as a hub for laundering money from Italy's powerful Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita organizations, the office of the Federal Prosecutor said. . . .

The 10 are accused of having laundered well in excess of US$1 billion in Ticino from the early 1990s until 2001, the prosecutor's office said.

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