At the end of May and during June, in large multi-day actions of the Police Administration (UP) and the Revenue and Customs Administration (UPC), and on the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, officers of the UP and UCP recorded all the packs of tobacco products that were in all the hangars in within the Free Zone of the Port of Bar.
This was said by Filip Adžić, advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for internal policy, security, the fight against high-level corruption and organized crime.
He said that in the action that started on May 28 and lasted for four days, as well as in the second action that was conducted on June 15 and 16, a cross-section of the situation was made that allows monitoring the situation with cigarettes and since when tobacco products are more not stored in the Free Zone of the Port of Bar.
He reminded that on July 22, at the proposal of the Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, the Government passed the Decision on the prohibition of the storage of tobacco products within the Free Zone.
He points out that the cigarettes found there are currently "trapped" in terms of distribution on the black market and that the determination of Montenegrin institutions put an end to the smuggling of cigarettes through Port Bar, which was previously an important place for smuggling tobacco products throughout Europe.
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