Roque Fabiano da Silveira, a Brazilian cigarette smuggler who lives in Paraguay and was once arrested for smuggling in the United States, was again arrested last week by Paraguayan federal police, according to a report in the newspaper ABC Color. Silveira was featured in a 2009 ICIJ report, “Smuggling Made Easy,” published as part of the Tobacco Underground series on the global trade in illicit cigarettes. The new charges say Silveira and a ... Jump to full article >>

Two Eastern Shore men were sentenced to probation Monday after pleading guilty in federal court to trafficking thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes. Senel Cuce, 29, co-owner of the Sunrise Family Market and Pizzeria in Exmore, and his manager, Ali Riza Zulam, were placed on five months of home detention with electronic monitoring. Both immigrated here from Turkey. Zulam, 41, of Poc omoke City, Md., obtained permanent residency and is ma ... Jump to full article >>