The Federal Highway Police seized a large truck full of "Eight" brand cigarettes that are produced by Tabacalera del Este S.A. (TABESA) linked to former President Horacio Cartes. The vehicle must have been carrying corn, but it was cigarettes that entered Brazil illegally from Paraguay through Lake Itaipu, according to the data. The Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized, on the morning of Tuesday 12, approximately 600 thousand packs of cigarettes of foreign origin, illegally transported in a truck on the BR-163, in the municipality of Mercedes, state of Paraná PR. Around 7:00, at km 303 of the aforementioned highway, the PRF team boarded a set of vehicles consisting of a Scania truck and two s... [Read more]