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Djukanovic named in EU smuggling lawsuit: US report 

A lawsuit brought by the European Union against US tobacco company RJ Reynolds names Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic as a witting participant in a smuggling and money laundering scheme involving the sale of cigarettes to criminal networks paid for using money earned in drugs and arms smuggling, according to a US State Department report.

The lawsuit alleges that the Italian mafia established a transit company Montenegrin Tabak Transit (MTT) in the mid-1990s "under the official sanction of the Montenegrin Foreign Investment Agency and the special protection of Djukanovic," says the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.

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