The Financial Guard’s siege on cigarette smugglers
The agency is seizing thousands of cigarettes and imposing fines on offenders, but results are uneven among counties.
The agency is seizing thousands of cigarettes and imposing fines on offenders, but results are uneven among counties.
Nine private companies with ties to public officials and organized crime make enormous profits moving millions of packs of...
Duty-free shops remain open after intrigue in the Romanian Parliament over efforts to close them. Cigarette smuggling is so...
Cigarette smugglers big and small use an array of tricks to reap big profits on illegal tobacco entering the country from...
Sanja Mandić-Soldo blows out a stream of smoke over the morning coffee she enjoys with five colleagues. The open door to...
Border shopsDragiša Inić, a 65 year old unemployed transport worker from Deleuša near Bileća, says he has been run off the...
Bosnia is not alone in its struggle with tobacco smuggling. Nearly the whole world engages in smuggling in some form.
Cigarette smuggling can be done by anyone with Internet access and a credit card.Countries like China and Dubai have become...
Around the world, some 3 million companies are registered in places and ways intended to make it hard for snooping law...
The official line in Montenegro since its split from Serbia in 2006 makes it easy to think that everything is great in...
Prosecutors at the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are believed to have recommended filing bribery charges against Serbian...
Land on the Black Sea coast and around Bulgaria’s biggest ski resort now belongs to the nephews of Thomas “Slab” Murphy,...