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Bosnia Customs Seize Smuggled Goods 

In a joint action to cut the smuggling chain through Bosnia, customs authorities seized 2.5 million cigarettes and 10,000 compact discs that illegally entered the country, officials reported Tuesday.

The enforcement sections of the Bosnian Serb and Muslim-Croat federation customs administrations raided a private house in southern Bosnia, about 55 miles south of Sarajevo. . . In the last four month or since the start of an overall campaign against corruption and smuggling, some 40 million cigarettes have been seized, preventing a revenue loss of $1.5 million dollars, Fergusson said.

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