Cigarettes, gold most smuggled items in Gujarat
Ahmedabad: Estimates by officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) – Ahmedabad Zonal Unit, indicate that cigarettes and gold are among the highest smuggled commodities in Gujarat. “While some 80 lakh sticks of cigarettes were smuggled in Gujarat from April to July, about 110kg gold was smuggled in the same period. The risk and investment involved in smuggling of cigarette is lesser than what it is for gold,” said Arvind Kumar Chaurasia, deputy director, DRI – Ahmedabad Zonal Unit.
Smuggling of cigarettes yields higher profits than what is earned in gold, said Chaurasia. He was present at a seminar and panel discussion on ‘Combating Counterfeiting and Smuggling – An Imperative to Accelerate Economic Development’, organized in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Disparity in taxes and prices of the same commodities usually leads to increase in smuggling. Among other items being smuggled into Gujarat, include Red Sanders, diamond powder and pharmaceuticals.
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Customs and Border Police Officers Prevented an Attempt for Smuggling of 1,551 boxes Cigarettes
A joint check by customs and border police officers prevented an attempt for smuggling of 1,551 boxes (31, 020 pieces) of cigarettes, reported the Bulgarian National Television.
On the “Incoming Cars and Buses” lane at Kapitan Andreevo Border crossing, a “Mercedes Benz” minibus with an Iraqi registration arrived from Turkey. It was travelling to England. The passengers were a family with four children. The adult passengers told the customsauthorities that they did not carry goods for declaring.
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12,000 pairs of fake branded shoes seized
CHENNAI: The next time a local trader in the city offers a 75% or a 90% discount on shoes of foreign brands, he might well be selling fake Chinese goods.
The Special Intelligence and Investigation Branch (SIIB) of Chennai Seaport Customs recently made a big seizure of such counterfeit shoes. In all, 12,000 pairs worth approximately Rs 3.5 crore were confiscated from a container that came from China.
Such consignments have been regularly making their way into Chennai through the sea-port. The importers mis-declare them as ‘unbranded ladies purse’, car hanging accessories and porcelain tiles. The shoes are of popular brands like Adidas, Nike and Reebok.
It is difficult for the customer to ascertain the genuineness of the goods as the manufacturers print a fake unique product code (UPC), similar to the ones the original shoes have.
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Vietnam seizes Apple gadgets smuggled from US, gold from Thailand
20 kilos of suspected gold was hid on a flight from Bangkok to Hanoi while the Apple package was sent to Saigon via post.
Customs officers in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday said they had just seized the largest postal package of iPhones and iPads smuggled from the U.S. The shipment included 144 smartphones and tablets, most of them new and of the latest versions.
It was labeled as non-commercial package and declared to contain computer mouses and keyboards, the officers said, as cited by local media. The recipient has been identified as a resident in District 1 in the city downtown.
Also on Friday, more than 20 kilograms of what was suspected as gold from a Bangkok flight was seized at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi.
Lear MoreLeading global players join FICCI CASCADE in addressing the global threat of illicit trade
Leading international institutions like World Customs Organization (WCO), INTERPOL, United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Organization for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) and US Homeland Security will represent at FICCI CASCADE’s [Committee against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Destroying the Economy] 4th edition of its flagship annual international event titled under the title: MASCRADE 2017–Movement Against Smuggling and Counterfeit Trade scheduled on 12- 13 October 2017 in New Delhi. This year, the theme of the conference is ‘Protect Your Brand Globally: Fight Counterfeiting, Smuggling and Piracy’.
The market for contraband, smuggled and counterfeit goods is thriving in India and is today one of the biggest challenges faced by Indian industry. India today has the potential to become a global manufacturing hub. However, widespread smuggling, counterfeiting and piracy, can act as a dampener in achieving this goal.
Lear MoreAirport worker held with 16kg gold
CHENNAI: Customs officers made their biggest smuggling bust in recent times with a haul of 16.4kg of gold worth Rs 4.6 crore — brought to the city by flight from Singapore — from an employee of an airline contractor at the Chennai airport on Monday morning.
Sleuths of the Customs’ Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at airport found the contraband after stopping a tractor in which J Kumar, 31, was attempting to move three baggage trolleys from the international tarmac to the domestic terminal at the airport, an investigating officer said.
It was second case that customs had recorded of insider involvement in gold trafficking at the airport in less than a fortnight.
“The AIU men thought it was routine check but it appeared odd that there was only a single piece of baggage on the three trolleys,” the officer said. “The bag, which had arrived from Singapore on IndiGo flight 6E 054, also did not have the check-in tag from the originating airport and this flagged off a major alarm.”
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Revenue seizes large quantity of smuggled alcohol.
Revenue has seized a large quantity of smuggled alcohol earlier today (Tuesday, August 22), the government agency has announced.
As a result of routine profiling, Revenue officers at Dublin Port seized over 530L of undeclared alcohol, which they found hidden in a consignment of soft drinks and snacks that had arrived into Dublin Port from Portugal.
The smuggled alcohol has a retail value of over €6,800 and which equates to a potential loss to the exchequer of over €3,500.
Yesterday (August 21), in a separate intelligence-led operation, Revenue officers in Cork carried out a search under warrant of a private premises in a town in North Cork.
Here they seized 18L of suspected counterfeit vodka. They were assisted in the operation by local Gardai, who seized suspected counterfeit clothing items. An Irish man in his 30s was questioned, according to the agency.
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Lear MoreSmuggling, piracy hindering India’s manufacturing growth: Ficci
NEW DELHI: Widespread smuggling, counterfeiting and piracy can affect India’s goal of becoming a manufacturing hub of the world, industry body Ficci today said.
The market for contraband, smuggled and counterfeit goods is thriving in India and is today one of the biggest challenges faced by the domestic industry, it said in a statement.
“India today has the potential to become a global manufacturing hub. However, widespread smuggling, counterfeiting and piracy can act as a dampener in achieving this goal,” the chamber said. It said according to a CASCADE (Committee against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Destroying the Economy) study, supply of illicit goods have increased 44.4 per cent between 2012 and 2014 in sectors such as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, auto components, computer hardware and FMCG.
Lear MoreMan held with gold worth Rs 72 lakh at IGI airport
NEW DELHI: A man has been arrested by the customs officials at international airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold valuing about Rs 72 lakh.
The accused was intercepted after his arrival from Dubai on Sunday. “His baggage search resulted in recovery of gold weighing 2.46 kg in the form of seven pieces, found concealed in a wallet and cigarette box kept in a stroller trolley bag, having market value of Rs 71.88 lakh,” a press release issued today by the customs said.
The passenger, aged 40 years, has been arrested and the gold seized, it said.
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Fake designer goods worth £250k seized at market in Ingoldmells
Thousands of fake goods worth a staggering £250k have been seized at a market in Ingoldmells.
Fake designer clothes and bogus perfume were among the counterfeit haul seized at Glen Park Market earlier today. Adidas trainers, Superdry jackets, The North Face coats, Hermes bags, Chanel perfumes and watches were also among goods confiscated in a raid by Lincolnshire Trading Standards, Lincolnshire Police and the Anti-Counterfeiting Group and its members working in partnership with the market management.
Emma Milligan, principal trading standards officer at Lincolnshire County Council, commented: “By working together with the market management and the local neighbourhood policing teams to tackle these sellers, we are sending out a strong message that this behaviour will not be tolerated.”
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