I’m not a math major, but 420 million cigarettes is about 2.1 million cartons. What kind of storage facility does one need to hide 2.1 million cartons?
They aren’t hidden they are gone.
Fast and Furious with cigarettes by the same criminals working there.
It’s ok though I am sure this will be investigated.
Right after hell freezes over.
You only have to store your wares a little at a time as they come in until you sell them.
There are 12 cartons to a case. That's 175,000 cases.
Each case is about 2' by 2' by 2.5' (10 cu ft).
Total volume for 175,000 cases would be 1,750,000 cu ft.
The standard 40' intermodal shipping container holds about 2380 cu ft.
Thus you would need at least 735 semis filled to the brim with cigarettes to "misplace" 420 million cigarettes.
That's not a lot of 18-wheelers, is it? That's barely more than 2 per day. We cannot expect one department in our government to not "misplace" 2 whole semis of goods on a daily basis. /sarc>
(Now multiply that times the number of departments in our massive government, and...)
:: What kind of storage facility does one need to hide 2.1 million cartons? ::
A 2-car garage when all sales are I/O-JIT.