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hryvnias. This led to three investigations, all of which ended inconclusively. Granz's scheme involved issuing receipts for cigarette purchases for each passenger without actual transactions, allowing him to avoid taxes and duties, generating millions of hryvnias in "clean" profit. According to open data, duty-free shops sold 530,584 packs of cigarettes in
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