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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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.
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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.
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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.
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/297555/deputy-pm-aims-to-curb-fraud-smuggling.html
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Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said that huge tax evasion was suspected due to the smuggling of foreign-made cigarettes to Mizoram and immediate action was required to put an end to it.
Thanhawla was quoted by anofficial statement as saying the smuggling of cigarettes from neighbouring countries are carried out in a “hawala-like racket”, the statement said.
The government, he said, has been contemplating hiking of taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/tax-evasion-due-to-smuggling-of-foreign-made-cigarettes/
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FBR to unveil rules to check counterfeits’ trade
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/123499-FBR-to-unveil-rules-to-check-counterfeits-trade
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http://dailypost.ng/2016/05/29/customs-intercept-smuggled-generators-frozen-poultry/
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