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A case involving a town mayor, customs officials and border police opens a window on the interworkings of the illegal...

In an unprecedented move, the EU has withheld funds from new member Bulgaria because the ineffective measures it’s taken...

“For my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law.” - former Peruvian President Oscar R. Benavides

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...