Curacao and Aruba played important role in cigarette smuggling
WILLEMSTAD - Curacao and Aruba play an important role in cigarette smuggling to Colombia. This is according to the authorities in that country. Yesterday a gang of 14 people were arrested.
This gang smuggled cigarettes from where Paraguay and Uruguay and shipped them via the two islands and Panama to Colombia.
The gang operated almost 6 years without being detected. In that period, over 10 billion cigarettes were smuggled.