Tobacco Underground

The Central Bank of Montenegro is taking the unusual step of assigning a special auditor to begin looking next month into...

Montenegrins may have been surprised late last year to learn that the global financial crisis had arrived in their tiny...

“My little cat ... I’m going crazy without you ... You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think ... Little cat, when are you...

The hang glider pilot insisted it was a routine flight, and that strong winds had blown him over the border from Hungary...

On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in uneasy industrial transition. Faded...

The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing...

ICIJ’s reporters went to Russia to uncover the truth about the billions of black market Jin Ling cigarettes turning up...

Europe is being flooded by smuggled Russian-made cigarettes worth at least $1 billion a year, an international investigation...

In 2004, Cyprus-based tobacco distributor Tlais Enterprises Limited (TEL) was told it had received a “red card” from British...

The Tobacco Underground is a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a program of the...