Counterfeit Cigarettes Worth $5 Million Destroyed in Ryazan

A large batch of counterfeit cigarettes worth about $5 million was destroyed in Ryazan. At the city's industrial landfill, the cigarettes were dumped into a pit, driven over by bulldozers and graders, and the ditch was then backfilled.

The destroyed batch of counterfeit products was the largest in the past ten years. The cigarettes were produced at the Shilovo Tobacco Factory, a municipal unitary enterprise. The criminals began the production of products without the agreement of rights holders in the summer of 2001.