Copenhagen Airport confiscated over 50,000 counterfeit products
The Danish Customs and Tax Administration (SKAT) seized a total of 51,021 counterfeit items worth of 172 million kroner during security checks at Copenhagen Airport last year.
The confiscated fake products included everything from clothes and shoes to electronics and medicine.
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New tobacco strike team units to fight illegal chop chop and cigarettes
Two new tobacco strike team units will be established and $7.7 million spent over the next two years to fight illegal chop chop and cigarettes. The Tobacco Strike Team was launched last October and has so far stopped the evasion of $45 million in duties and taxes.
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Manufacturers in pain as smugglers, counterfeiters have a field day
Nigerian manufacturers are writhing in pains arising from the activities of smugglers and counterfeiters who exploit border and legal loopholes to ply their illicit trade in the country.
Finance ministry to unveil three bills to combat tax evasion, tobacco smuggling and corruption
Greek Finance ministry plans to submit to Parliament three draft laws aimed at combating tax evasion, smuggling and corruption.
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Retailers seek tobacco tax freeze amid smuggling concerns
The pre-budget submission by Retailers Against Smuggling (RAS) has highlighted its concerns following latest figures from the Revenue Commissioners which show that customs officers have so far this year seized illicit tobacco which, if sold, would have resulted in the Exchequer losing €15.8m in tax — approximately €5m more than the same period last year.
RAS said that in order to prevent any further damage to small and medium businesses in Ireland, it is calling for a moratorium on further excise increases until such increases can be proven not to encourage smuggling.
Chennai: Delivery boy steals 12 Iphones worth Rs. 5 lakh, replaces them with fake ones.
As per reports, B Naveen, a 21-year-old delivery agent, working with the e-commerce giant Flipkart, has been arrested for allegedly stealing 12 iPhones worth 5 lakh. The whole incident surfaced when Flipkart grew suspicious about the iPhones being returned in bulk over the last one month.
The delivery boy, incharge of the delivery area Washermenpet, used to replace iPhones with fake phones. Naveen used to place the orders using fake addresses and after replacing the phones with the dummies, he used to return the parcels to the company. The delivery agent used to state the reason of customer dissatisfaction, whenever he was asked to explain the returning of the phones.
An enquiry committee found that the phones that were returned were fake and were returned mainly from Chennai courier office, where the delivery agent used to work, said reports.A police complaint was then filed by the warehouse owner Vetriselvam.
Naveen, who completed his graduation from a college in Kodungayur, had been working in north Chennai area from the past six months.
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JAILED: Student who was part of £2 million tobacco smuggling conspiracy
A student has been jailed for her part in a £2 million tobacco smuggling conspiracy which used Black Country storage sites to hold illicit cigarettes.
Influx of fake auto spare parts taints Nigerian market
Government agency charged with the responsibility of ensuring standardisation of products in the country, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) had said that 95 per cent of auto spare parts imported into the country do not meet the minimum acceptable standard, while amore recent figure estimated that about 75 per cent of auto spare parts in the country were fake.
World Health Organisation, (WHO) estimated that across the world, 36,000 yearly fatalities and 1.5 million injuries were result of defective counterfeit parts.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), which holds the statutory responsibility as a key agency involved in controlling the importation and exportation of goods said the body has been confronted with challenges that reduced efforts on the importation of fake automotive spare parts into the country.
Four arrested, 870,000 contraband cigarettes seized, in Dartmouth bust
The province of Nova Scotia is losing millions of dollars every year in tax revenue because of illegal cigarettes like those seized this week.
Service Nova Scotia announced Wednesday it had seized 870,000 contraband smokes following a seven-month investigation conducted with RCMP and Halifax Regional Police.
“This is certainly one of the larger seizures that we’ve made in the last three to four years,” Bernie Meagher, director of audit and enforcement for Service Nova Scotia said on Wednesday.
Deputy PM aims to curb fraud, smuggling
The deputy Prime Minister TrươngHòaBình pledged to take more resolute actions to strictly punish all violators, including Government officials who directly take part in or protect others engaged in smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods. He highlighted remarkable achievements that the Government and authorities have made against the illegal activities
However, Bình said the domestic market was facing a more complicated expansion and increase in smuggling cases and trade fraud.
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