European Anti-Fraud Office Helps Prosecute Cases Against Cigarette Smuggling

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is increasingly active in the prosecution of cigarette smuggling, particularly a cases of smuggling through Montenegro into Italy and through the Balkans into European Union countries. On April 30, 2003, the Bari Court of Assizes in Italy held a public hearing in the trial of leading members of the international cigarette smuggling organization that imported cigarettes into the European Union through Montenegro in the second half of the 1990s?[more]