For the tobacco industry, Serbia and Montenegro are important battlegrounds in the struggle for power and sales. Both are countries of heavy smokers, and the cigarette producers are fighting for the lion's share of the market. Smuggling is an important factor. An estimated two thirds of all cigarettes evade tobacco taxes. 

The true profiteers are the tobacco mafia, organized criminals who use the proceeds of cigarette smuggling to finance the drug and weapons trade. Their influence in the Balkans extends all the way to top government circles. Politicians who get in the way of the business are eliminated. The assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is believed to be related to organized crime and cigarette smuggling. This report reveals how the European Union is taking steps to root out the political corruption in the shadow of the tobacco companies and organized crime.

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