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Albanians Try to Take Over Kosovars' Crime Network 

War leaves drug, arms traffic up for grabs
Jump to full article: San Francisco Chronicle, 1999-05-11
Author: Frank Viviano, Chronicle Staff Writer

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But evidence of the corruption's scale can be gleaned from a mammoth disparity between declared tax and customs receipts and the consumption of certain import goods in Albania.

In 1998, reports Tirana journalist Sami Neza, Albanians smoked an estimated 8,000 tons of U.S. and Western European cigarettes. The total amount officially checked through Albanian customs was 11 tons. [This graph only]

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