Police shut down fake cigarette factory

Police in Tboung Khmum province yesterday collaborated with provincial military police and mobile custom officers to crack down on an illegal tobacco factory producing counterfeit ‘ESSE’ brand cigarettes. Police seized tonnes of fake cigarettes from the factory located near the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Da commune of Memot district.

Tboung Khmum Provincial Economic Police Officer Major Long Sambath said yesterday that the illegal cigarette factory was owned by a Cambodian tycoon. Maj Sambath said that provincial economic police were monitoring and investigating activities at the factory for one month before raiding it yesterday morning.

He added that a local tycoon who is believed to be the owner of the factory was not present during the police raid. He remains at large, fleeing ahead of the police raid. However, he added that police have already established the identity of the factory owner. He said authorities intend to summon the person responsible for operating the factory to question him about the production of counterfeit tobacco products.

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