PODGORICA, March 8 (Hina) - Assumptions pointing to "huge cigarette smuggling carried out on Montenegrin territory and (indicating) that some top officials got enormously rich" have been confirmed, a Montenegrin official said on
Friday. The assumptions were confirmed following talks with the editor of the Croatian weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, said Vuksan Simonovic, head of a Montenegrin parliamentary commission which examined Nacional's allegations about cigarette smuggling. Data indicating that 461 aeroplanes with cigarettes landed on the Podgorica airport, were not subjected to taxation and are now on the grey market in Montenegro is unbelievable, said Simonovic. Simonovic and another two members of the Montenegrin commission interviewed Pukanic in Zagreb on Thursday. The Nacional weekly ran a series of article on the tobacco mob in the Balkans.(hina) ha sb
PODGORICA, March 8 (Hina) - Assumptions pointing to "huge cigarette
smuggling carried out on Montenegrin territory and (indicating)
that some top officials got enormously rich" have been confirmed, a
Montenegrin official said on Friday.
The assumptions were confirmed following talks with the editor of
the Croatian weekly Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, said Vuksan Simonovic,
head of a Montenegrin parliamentary commission which examined
Nacional's allegations about cigarette smuggling.
Data indicating that 461 aeroplanes with cigarettes landed on the
Podgorica airport, were not subjected to taxation and are now on the
grey market in Montenegro is unbelievable, said Simonovic.
Simonovic and another two members of the Montenegrin commission
interviewed Pukanic in Zagreb on Thursday. The Nacional weekly ran
a series of article on the tobacco mob in the Balkans.
(hina) ha sb