Editor’s Note: See also Copying Cleopatra: The Cigarette ‘Made in Egypt’, via Montenegro.
From: Balkan Insight
It claimed to have kicked the habit. But Montenegro is again at the heart of a global trade in illegal cigarettes. Its Balkan neighbours risk getting hooked too.
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Besides conducting dozens of interviews, BIRN and ARIJ reporters have scoured shipping papers, confidential contracts, customs reports and court files to unpick the operations.
The results shine a light on how Southeast Europe, and Montenegro in particular, has become the hub of a global criminal network that hides behind offshore havens and exploits the paucity of coordinated international response.
