Over 3,500 bottles of illicit liquor seized in Delhi
NEW DELHI: With municipal elections round the corner, illicit liquor has started flowing into Delhi. In two separate operations, Delhi Police seized around 3,500 quarter bottles of liquor being smuggled into the capital from Haryana.
Police are questioning the two bootleggers to find out about the receivers of the consignment.
The first seizure was made in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai. DCP south Ishwar Singh said that a patrol team in an emergency response vehicle intercepted an Alto around 6.30am and found 42 cartons of country-made liquor in 2,016 quarter bottles. The driver, Shyam, a resident of Faridabad, was arrested.
The other operation took place in northeast Delhi’s Seemapuri. DCP Nupur Prasad said that two constables, Pradeep and Sumit, were at a picket in the area when they stopped a Honda City for checking. They found 1,488 quarter bottles kept inside 31 cartons inside the car. The driver, Tarun Singh, was arrested.
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Mutharika orders Malawi army soldiers to guard borders against maize, tobacco smuggling
Office of the President and Cabinet says the order is with immediate effect therefore people living in the borders should not be scared when they see soldiers in their areas.
This comes barely a day after police in Karonga have impounded 40 trucks full of maize on its way to Tanzania just two days after the law enforcers impounded 17 trucks with 300 metric tonnes heading to Tanzania.
George Mulewa, deputy publicist for Karonga police said drivers of the trucks have been picked for questioning.
Mulewa also said the drivers of the 17 trucks impounded three days ago were appearing in court on Tuesday.
A study by government and food security partners show at least 6.5 million people need emergency food aid in the 2016/17 planting season due to heavy flooding in some areas mostly in the northern region and drought in other parts of the country especially in the south.
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HK student, nine other suspects in diamond smuggling arrested
Chinese customs officers said they have smashed a syndicate hiring Hong Kong students to smuggle diamonds into the mainland.
Ten suspected members of the syndicate have been arrested, including a female university student from Hong Kong, Sky Post reports.
Customs agents identified three online stores in the mainland that had been taking orders from customers who wanted to buy branded diamond products from overseas.
The stores used addresses in Hong Kong and Macau to receive the diamonds sent from overseas and then hired smugglers to transport the goods to the mainland, where they were finally delivered to the buyers.
By dodging the 17 percent tariff on diamond imports, the syndicate was able to sell the products at much cheaper prices.
The operation against the syndicate, which started on Feb. 20, resulted in the arrest of 10 suspects in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Gongbei Port in Zhuhai.
http://www.ejinsight.com/20170328-hk-student-nine-other-suspects-in-diamond-smuggling-arrested/
Lear MoreLarge Amount of Consumer Tech Is Counterfeit, OECD Report Finds
Nearly 20 percent of mobile phones and 25 percent of video game consoles sold internationally are counterfeit, and the numbers are rising, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The report, Trade in Counterfeit ICT Goods, defines counterfeit as a trademark violation, a fake product packaged to look like real thing. The report found China to be the leading source of counterfeit information and communication technology (ICT) goods and United States technology to be hardest hit. The OECD is the organisation of wealthier nations.
The report details complex ways counterfeiters produce and ship these products to avoid detection, often through a maze of ports and with the fake labels added in a different country from manufacturing.
Fakes hit products like smartphone batteries, chargers, memory cards, magnetic stripe cards, solid state drives and music players, the report found. Based on the latest 2013 data, on average, 6.5 percent of ICT products are fakes, it said. It placed a value on lost sales of US$ 143 billion and rising. It also emphasised the safety and health threats of counterfeits, which often use inferior or dangerous components.
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Video: 3 million pieces of counterfeit goods seized in Dubai
DUBAI: Over three million counterfeit products of more than 30 renowned brands were confiscated in Dubai within a week after Dubai Economic Department (DED) raided four warehouses in the emirate as part of its strategic focus to protect intellectual property and the rights of trademark owners and consumers.
One of the warehouses had a stock of over one million pieces of counterfeit products — including phone accessories, ladies’ handbags, clothes, leather goods, ink, printers, cosmetics, watches and contact lenses.
Around 928,000 items, including duplicate phones and accessories, were seized from the second warehouse, while the third had over 700,000 replicas of five international perfume brands.
The fourth was found to have 252,000 pieces of counterfeit perfumes, cosmetics and cleaning products.
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Economic Report Predicts Rise in Global Counterfeiting, Piracy
BANGKOK, THAILAND — The global trend in counterfeiting and piracy is forecast to increase during the decade with China at the heart of production of fake goods from clothes to electronics, and risky fake medicines and cosmetics.
But governments and businesses are looking to challenge the commercial threats posed by counterfeiting with steps to detect fake goods and protect brands and jobs.
A report commissioned by the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the International Chamber of Commerce, said the global economic value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach $2.3 trillion by 2022. The global value of the counterfeit market in 2015 stood at $1.7 trillion.
The February 2017 report, by research firm Frontier Economics, said the wider social, investment and criminal enforcement costs could take the total to $4.2 trillion, leaving at risk about 5.4 million “legitimate jobs”.
http://www.voanews.com/a/global-trend-in-counterfeiting-and-piracy/3783360.html
Lear MoreBaike.com Found Advertising For Fake Products
On this year’s World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV exposed that baike.com, a popular online encyclopedia, illegally gained profit by advertising for illegal advertisement and fake products.
After the annual report conference on TV on March 15, baike.com immediately deleted fake entries on their websites, including advertisers such as Jizao 5S, B365 enzyme, liver nutrient, neuron acid and Xianrenbian.
According to the Food Safety Law, advertisement of food should not contain exaggerated facts. Disease prevention and treatment are also banned to be used in food advertisement. The advertisement of Jizao 5S produced by Shanghai Zhiyuan Company claimed that the product effectively stops tumors from growing bigger.
https://beijingtoday.com.cn/2017/03/baike-com-found-advertising-fake-products/
Lear MoreFake Apple EarPods, adapters seized at the Peace Bridge
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officers confiscated counterfeit Apple products valued more than $15,000 Monday at the Peace Bridge.
CBP officers said they selected a shipment labeled “Earphones” for further examination and found “EarPods” and adapters with the Apple logo.
Upon closer inspection, officers said the found the packaging and product quality inconsistent with Apple products.
Import specialists from CBP’s Electronics Center of Excellence and Expertise detained the shipment for further analysis. Those specialists determined the products were fake.
http://www.wkbw.com/news/fake-apple-earpods-adapters-seized-at-the-peace-bridge
Lear MoreBiggest untaxed tobacco seizure in MN history goes to court
Not buckling up could lead to a hefty cost depending on what is in your trunk.
The pair of Illinois men stopped with an estimated $78,000 in untaxed tobacco received felony charges for the smuggling of tobacco into the state of Minnesota.
Last June, State Patrol pulled over Muhammed Abdul Majid and Iman Ugurlu for passing a weigh station in their Penske truck without stopping, as well as driving without buckling.
After some inspection of paper work, the patrol officer discovered the truck rented outside of Beloit, Illinois despite the claim of a delivery from Wisconsin. When an inspection was conducted after brining the vehicle in, the tobacco was discovered.
They were charged in Washington County District on Feb. 9 and had their first court appearance March 9. According to CBS, they are looking down the barrel. If convicted, they face at least five years in prison with/or a $10,000 fine for each felony charge.
http://www.msureporter.com/2017/03/23/biggest-untaxed-tobacco-seizure-in-mn-history-goes-to-court/
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Fake notes reached Kerala via Dubai; probing role of gold smuggling racket……
Karipur: The fake Indian currency notes that was reportedly distributed in Kerala had been routed to the state via a gold smuggling gang in Dubai. The Intelligence found that the help of gold smuggling racket was sought by the fake currency racketeers to smuggle counterfeit notes.
The gold smuggling gang in Kannur and Koduvally and the hawala racket are hand in glove with each other and now have shifted their attention to fake currencies received the notes from the gold smuggling gang members…….