"Illegal cigarette factory with workers from Bulgaria and Ukraine was discovered in Spain", 7 December 2017

In a joint operation of the Spanish Civil Guard and Europol, 18 people were arrested [...] for operating an illegal cigarette factory in the Spanish city of Granada, TASS reported... 

Workers, mostly citizens of Bulgaria and Ukraine, lived in nearby rental flats and worked 12 hours a day in extremely poor working conditions. The capacity of the factory was two million single cigarettes a day.

According to Europol's announcement, after yesterday's operation, the factory was closed, and during the searches carried out in eight warehouses in the Granada and Málaga area 10 tons of tobacco leaves, 4 tons of tobacco, 4.5 million cigarettes, equipment, filters, paper and adhesives were seized. For the arrested, allegations were made of illegal trade, involvement in a criminal group, money laundering and human rights violations.