Prosecutors talk to Djukanovic

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March 31, 2008

Elusive PM finally meets about alleged cigarette smuggling

The Italian news agency ANSA is reporting that Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic was in Italy Friday afternoon talking to Bari prosecutors who are looking at Djukanovic's role in cigarette smuggling. It quotes officials close to Djukanovic, who said the Prime Minister requested the meeting with prosecutors in the Italian city who have been investigating his issue of a license to import cigarettes into Montenegro to a Swiss man. The cigarettes allegedly were then shipped illegally across the Adriatic in boats from Italy.