Belgian customs officers arrested 45 people on Wednesday as part of the country's biggest operation into cigarette counterfeiting. The country has become a hub for cigarette trafficking to neighbouring countries. Officers arrested 17 people of Ukrainian and Bulgarian nationality during a pre-dawn raid on a sweatshop in an industrial area of Aartselaar, near the northern city of Antwerp. The men were housed in a dilapidated dormitory in the warehouse, working in shifts to dry tobacco and run it t