Gold worth Rs 21 lakh seized at Mangaluru Airport.
MANGALURU: Custom officials at Mangaluru International Airportdetected three different cases to gold smuggling on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, seized 655.94 grams of 24 carat pure gold valued at Rs 21.65 lakh from passengers arriving from Dubai. While in two cases gold was concealed in the undergarments of passengers in the form of paste, customs officials found gold concealed as gold strips in measuring tape.
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P740-million fake, smuggled goods seized in Pasay, Manila warehouses.
Various counterfeit products, such as clothes and cosmetics, worth P740 million were discovered in two warehouses in Manila and Pasay recently, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Friday. The bureau’s intelligence group inspected the two warehouses where the fake items were reportedly being stored before their distribution to the local market. Fake branded footwear, wearing apparels, cosmetics, toys, and cellphone accessories were uncovered in a warehouse located in Baclaran, Pasay City in the first raid on May 21. It stemmed from a tip that the warehouse was storing fake goods that would be sold in the market, according to the bureau. In a follow-inspection a week later, various smuggled and unregistered medical products were then seized in a warehouse in Sta. Cruz in Manila. The items discovered on the first warehouse were seized for violating Republic Act (R.A.) no. 8293 or the Intellectual Property (IP) Code of the Philippines; and Section 118 (f) of RA 10863, otherwise known as the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) of 2016.
Lear MoreTrivandrum airport gold smuggling case: RAW, NIA join probe.
Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed a report in a special CBI court on a gold smuggling episode in which a Customs Officer has been arrested among others, there came a new twist with the RAW and NIA beginning a probe as well. The National Investigation Agency and Research and Analysis Wing launched their respective probe after one of the arrested, a beautician with business in Dubai, was found to have alleged links with a Pakistani involved in gold smuggling. Even though it was the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) who effected the arrest of the carriers, the case is now being investigated by the CBI and there is said to be a criminal conspiracy involved. For the past six months, the DRI had been keeping a close tab on the airport. The CBI in its report has alleged that the key conspirator was Customs Superintendent V. Radhakrishnan, who has now been arrested. During April, there was an increased flow of gold. The DRI last month arrested a beautician along with a carrier who came with 25 kilograms of gold at the airport here.
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Happy World Anti-Counterfeiting Day 2019!
With 70% of counterfeit goods reportedly sold online, and 68% of people now reported to have unintentionally bought fake goods online, it’s difficult to imagine how our counterfeit problem could get any worse.
White papers from the Union des Fabricants and co-published by the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection and Mark Monitor remind us that fake goods are not only putting us out of pocket, but they are placing us in a greater danger than may have initially been thought. The fakes we buy are funding serious criminal activity, including terrorism, modern slavery and other organised crimes, not to mention the immediate health and safety issues of fake pharmaceuticals and electricals.
What does this mean for your brand?
These studies serve to further underscore why it is not just important, but imperative that we tackle counterfeits in a meaningful way. One report notes that 85% of consumers believe that brands need to be doing more to protect customers from making counterfeit purchases online. Brands are less likely to be trusted – and therefore more likely to lose potential customers and sales – if the brand is not seen to be actively working to resolve any online counterfeiting issues.
Brand owners need to create an effective and sustained anti-counterfeiting strategy tailored to their brand, industry and consumer purchasing habits. A combination of the right IP protection, customs recordals, online content monitoring and an established enforcement/escalation strategy can prove a successful blueprint in combatting counterfeits.
A brand enforcement strategy that identifies types of issues and priorities is the key starting point. Undertaking manual and piecemeal enforcement activity (either physical or digital) prevents matters being prioritised properly and dealt with holistically, and is a drain on resources.
A number of software platform providers offer online content monitoring, enabling bulk enforcement across different mechanisms such as eBay and Twitter. These platforms are useful in reducing the level of noise around the brand, but these alone can simply create a whack-a-mole scenario of sellers being removed, only to pop up again via new credentials or with altered selling practices. What is required in addition to this is the continued collation and review of the intelligence generated. That can then be fed into an escalation policy which can be implemented by a brand and their legal advisors to address issues that are so heinous at the outset or recurrent to warrant more bespoke action such as investigations, litigation, or collaboration with law enforcement.
https://www.iamstobbs.com/opinion/happy-world-anti-counterfeiting-day-2019
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Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Security Technologies Market 2019-2024: Advance Track & Trace, Alien Technology, Alp Vision Applied DNA Sciences, Atl Security Label Systems, Atlantic Zeiser
e Southeast Asia Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Security Technologies market size is $XX million USD in 2018 with XX CAGR from 2014 to 2018, and it is expected to reach $XX million USD by the end of 2024 with a CAGR of XX% from 2019 to 2024.
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Lear More3 crore of foreign cigarettes 3 arrested
Customs officials have seized over 10 lakh cigarettes worth Rs 2 crore that was smuggled from Bangladesh and Myanmar to Bengluru. The cigarettes were stored in three godowns in the city market. A Benguluru resident has been taken into custody. A Ramana Reddy, additional commissioner, city customs Commissionerate, said a man who was trading foreign cigarettes was detained on June 8 and three godowns in the city market area were raided on June 28. More than 16 brands of international cigarettes worth Rs 2 crore were found there. These cigarettes were illegally sold in pubs, bars and other high-end outlets.
Lear MoreAnti-Counterfeiting Packaging Market 2019 Global Analysis, Growth, Size, Share, Trends, Forecast to 2025
This report provides in depth study of “Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging Market” using SWOT analysis i.e. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat to the organization. The Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging Market report also provides an in-depth survey of key players in the market which is based on the various objectives of an organization such as profiling, the product outline, the quantity of production, required raw material, and the financial health of the organization.The global Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging market was valued at $XX million in 2017, and MAResearch analysts predict the global market size will reach $XX million by the end of 2028, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2017 and 2028.This report provides detailed historical analysis of global market for Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging from 2013-2018, and provides extensive market forecasts from 2018-2028 by region/country and subsectors. It covers the sales volume, price, revenue, gross margin, historical growth and future perspectives in the Anti-Counterfeiting Packaging market.
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Highland experts warn of ‘what not to buy on anti-counterfeiting day and say your money for fake goods could be going towards paying for terrorism, serios crime, slavery and prostitution in UK and around the world’
The Highland Council’s trading standards team is helping to promote World Anti-Counterfeiting Day on Thursday.The event is now in its 21st year and was established by the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (GACG) Network and is also backed by the UK Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG).The impact of counterfeiting and piracy is predicted to drain cash from the global economy and put jobs at risk. Highland Council trading standards has organised a display at the Eastgate Shopping Centre in Inverness as part of World Anti-Counterfeiting Day to illustrate examples of “what not to buy”. It will include fake designer brands including board games, candles, alcohol, tobacco and tweed.
Lear MoreSecuring Our Future: On the Anti-Counterfeit Fight Back with Avolites
In Park Royal, West London, a digital fight back is brewing. Innovation is being threatened by replication. Progress is under attack. Counterfeiting is becoming more commonplace and Avolites is saying ‘the first rule of the fight back is let’s talk about the fight back’. Avolites is on a mission to share its story and galvanise both the AvoLife community and the industry as a whole to join its war against the pirates. They have also started to spearhead an alliance between major lighting console and media server manufacturers to embolden its campaign.
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Amazon paid a Trump fundraiser to lobby against vendors who sell counterfeit goods
Amazon tapped a lobbying firm run by an ally of President Donald Trump to push for government action against vendors selling counterfeit goods – an issue that has come under greater scrutiny during the U.S. trade battle with China. From July 2018 until March 2019, Amazon has been paying Ballard Partners up to $70,000 each quarter for, in part, lobbying on issues related to “trade and tariff policy,” according to three disclosure reports. However, people familiar with the matter said that the disclosure reports only tell part of the story.
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