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Key West Counterfeits
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
By Gregory Mottola
Think you got a good deal on Cubans from your Key West connection? Better double check your cigars for authenticity.
Five peddlers of counterfeit Cuban cigars were arrested in Key West after a raid on seven of their establishments turned up a substantial number of boxes of fake Cohiba, Montecristo, H. Upmann and Romeo y Julieta cigars. General Cigar Co. owns the U.S. rights to the Cohiba name, and the other brands are U.S. trademarks of Altadis U.S.A. Inc.
For more on this story, see the current issue of Cigar Insider.
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