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Sentencing set for Miami cigarette smuggler 

Jump to full article: WZVN ABC7 (Fort Myers, FL), 2009-08-14

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FLORIDA: A Cutler Bay resident admits to smuggling more than 27 million cigarettes out of the United States.

Roman Vidal, 57, has pleaded guilty in connection with the smuggling cigarettes into various European Union countries in order to avoid paying more than $6.5 million in customs and tax duties.

To execute the scheme, Vidal, who ran the Miami portion of the operation, arranged for the purchase of hundreds of cases of cigarettes from Panama and the transportation of those cigarettes into the Port of Miami.

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