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| | Lorillard Tobacco Company :: $1.7 Million Fine Levied in Counterfeit Newport Cigarettes Case |
 | | Cam-Kat, Inc. and Mustapha Kechtban participated in the sale of millions of fake Newport cigarettes provided by Florida concern Canstar (U.S.A.), which earlier had been fined $2.5 million for its role in the scheme. |
 | | More than 26,000 cartons of the fake cigarettes were seized during a court- authorized raid in 2003 on a Franklin Park, IL warehouse controlled by Canstar. |
 | | Similar cigarette counterfeiting cases currently are pending in Arizona, California, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas. |
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