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Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović’s name was nowhere to be seen last week when Italian prosecutors filed charges in...

Israel’s dozen major crime families have become more brazen in recent years as they fight over the usual industries – drugs,...

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

Cigarette smugglers big and small use an array of tricks to reap big profits on illegal tobacco entering the country from...

For failure to do much about organized crime or corruption, Bulgaria has been punished with the suspension of €500 million...

The Balkans, a region synonymous with violence and crime during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and the transition from...

A Bulgarian author who specialized in organized crime was fatally shot on Monday afternoon in Sofia, news agencies reported....

Border shopsDragiša Inić, a 65 year old unemployed transport worker from Deleuša near Bileća, says he has been run off the...

Sanja Mandić-Soldo blows out a stream of smoke over the morning coffee she enjoys with five colleagues. The open door to...

Cigarette smuggling can be done by anyone with Internet access and a credit card.Countries like China and Dubai have become...

Bosnia is not alone in its struggle with tobacco smuggling. Nearly the whole world engages in smuggling in some form.

SmugglingA reed building outside Plovdiv,a ship stopped near Varna, and a train found in Kalotina have all been found full...