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Blind Macaroni Bootleggers Busted in Moscow Region
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Gazeta.Ru

MOSCOW
An undercover macaroni production operation has been exposed in the Dmitrov district of the Moscow Region, the Moscow Regional Department of Interior reported on Thursday, January 23. A checkup by the district department for fighting organized crime together with tax police revealed that the general director of the limited liability company “Dmitrov Educational-Production Enterprise of the All Russian Centre of the Blind People” produced and sold macaroni without obtaining a proper license. From February 1 till December 31, 2001, the enterprise produced over 20 million packets of macaroni of which over 19 million were sold, bringing the company revenues of over 9 million rubles.

It is worth mentioning that as from February 2002 macaroni production will be excluded from the list of businesses subject to licensing in Russia.
(Gazeta.Ru News Source)
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