The Levinson family says Robert was working as a private investigator looking into cigarette smuggling in Iran when he went missing.
According to his family, Levinson was working as a private investigator looking into cigarette smuggling and disappeared during a business trip there.
The anti-cigarette smuggling bill Mr. Weiner sponsored was aimed at preventing online cigarette vendors from selling to people who weren't paying local taxes or were underage.
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Levinson, a retired FBI agent, was working as a private investigator on a cigarette smuggling case when he traveled to the Iranian resort island Kish in March 2007.
Italian authorities have investigated Dukanovic for allegations of cigarette smuggling.
An inquiry by Brazil's Congress linked him to cigarette smuggling.
Some seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.
Some ideas seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.
In recent years, Mr Belmokhtar has gained notoriety as a hostage-taker across the vast Sahara, often demanding multi-million dollar ransoms from Western governments which - along with cigarette-smuggling - finances his jihad.
The beneficiaries of corruption in the anarchic customs service, or in the cigarette-smuggling rackets, or in the energy mafia, or in the empires reaching down into petty officialdom that prey on any sort of business with cash in the till, are all well known.
There was a realisation, too, that spending money wisely in the Balkans is not quite the same as spending it freely: if the aim is to keep Mr Djukanovic in power, it must go to pay the pensions of deserving Montenegrins (including the Serb-minded) and so on, not to finance cigarette-smuggling by corrupt members of the regime.
There is "no good evidence" that standardised cigarette packs would lead to more smuggling, a group of MPs and peers say.
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