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14. 06. 2002
PODGORICA DAILY ORDERED TO PAY FINE TO DJUKANOVIC
PODGORICA, June 14, 2002 - Podgorica daily Dan has been ordered to pay embattled Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic 15,500 euros for defamation of character after publishing articles linking him to a Balkan tobacco smuggling ring, the paper said today. Dan last summer reprinted a series of reports on the so-called Balkans tobacco mafia published earlier in Croatian weekly Nacional. Vladislav Asanin, Dan's former editor-in-chief, had already been handed a three-month jail sentence in a case brought by Djukanovic. Prosecutors in the Italian city of Bari formally opened an investigation into Djukanovic last month for links to mafia groups involved in smuggling cigarettes.
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