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                                                  Vincenzo Armeni. (QMI Agency files)


MONTREAL -- Even though a judge said it seemed "absurd," he nonetheless allowed the provincial government to tax a notorious cocaine trafficker's drug revenues.

Quebec Court Judge Antonio De Michele ruled last week that the province's tax authority may collect over $1 million from Vincenzo Armeni, 55, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2007 for drug trafficking.

Armeni had taken Revenue Quebec to court arguing that the tax agency erroneously based its calculations on how much he owed on "claims of an informant" who collaborated with police against Armeni.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/17/quebec-judge-oks-tax-on-cocaine-revenue

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