Tracing Illicit Cigarette Flows over Mountainous Bosnia-Montenegro Borderland

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Cigarettes from Montenegro have been smuggled for years via the mountain roads between Pluzine and Gacko, according to police files seen by BIRN, while members of the network allegedly monitored the movements and shifts of border police in order to smuggle the goods into Bosnia and Herzegovina unnoticed. In the Montenegrin part of the investigation, several people, including police officers, were charged …

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BIRN reconstructs how smugglers use detailed knowledge of mountain roads and police surveillance to move illegal cigarettes from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. Uncategorized @bs

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Illustration: BIRN/Igor Vujcic. Police believe it was from a house in the mountainous areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina where Nebojsa Miletic observed the movements of Bosnian border police – when they patrolled, the routes they took and, above all, the shift changes that left the border briefly unprotected. The difficult terrain, crisscrossed by rural roads, is ideal […]The post On the trail of cigarette smuggling on the Bosnia-Montenegro border …