The cigarette market in Yemen is witnessing a wide increase in smuggled items, which have flowed dramatically in recent years, due to the security chaos, causing financial losses to the Yemeni economy, which is deprived of tax revenues in the billions of riyals every year, as a result of smuggling operations.
In this investigative report, Al-Mawqea Post traces illegal cigarette smuggling operations from several countries, most notably from UAE to Yemen, the networks behind them, and the accomplices of these networks in areas under the control of the legitimate government. Maritime and land smuggling routes, the losses incurred by the Yemeni economy as a result of smuggling operations, the beneficiaries of the flourishing ..
