Nigeria jails 14 foreigners for oil smuggling
Lagos – A Nigerian court on Friday jailed 14 foreign sailors from Russia, Ukraine, Philippine and Japan between two and five years for unlawful dealing in petroleum products in the country.
The federal high court in Lagos found the suspects guilty of illegally transporting 1 738 tons of crude oil and some 4 500 tons of petrol, also called gasoline, in their vessel MT Anukpet Emerald.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/nigeria-jails-14-foreigners-for-oil-smuggling-20160318
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$1300 Apple iPhone 6s Converted into a “Pear iPhone”
There’s a reason why you should be shopping online only from popular and trusted websites, or you might end up with a defective or fake product. And that happens often. A Chinese woman ordered an Apple iPhone 6s online, and what she received was a Pear Phone!Identified by surname Zhao, the woman believed that she had bought an Apple iPhone 6s, but when she received the product, she discovered that it was a Pear Phone instead. According to NetEase, Zhao discovered a fantastic deal online and bought the fake iPhone 6s for $525 (3,400 RMB).
Zhao then received a message from the scammer that her iPhone had been confiscated by the customs authorities and she needed to pay $772 (5,000 RMB) more for retrieving the product. The scammer assured Zhao that the customs duty would be refunded completely after she had received the product.
http://www.mobipicker.com/1300-apple-iphone-6s-converted-into-pear-phone/
Lear MoreChiz: Protect our farmers, stop agri products smuggling
VICE presidential candidate Senator Francis Escudero has urged the government to protect local farmers and “fight the influx” of cheap agricultural products smuggled into the country.Escudero said that he and his presidential running mate, Senator Grace Poe, will push for additional P300 billion in funds for the agriculture sector, if they win the elections on May 9.He cited the need to increase funding for agriculture to boost the industry battered by high cost of production, extreme weather condition and poor support services from the government.
http://www.journal.com.ph/news/top-stories/chiz-protect-our-farmers-stop-agri-products-smuggling
Lear MoreNorth Korean counterfeit cigarette trade faces squeeze
Stepped up U.N. sanctions against North Korea could put a crimp on an important source of foreign exchange for the secretive communist state: illicit cigarettes.Port officials in Manila and Malta have at least twice in the past two and a half years seized shipments of North Korean cigarettes that camouflaged millions of high-quality counterfeit Marlboros with packaging and markings like those prepared for legal sale in Iraq.Under a United Nations resolution adopted March 2 in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear and rocket tests, member states are required to inspect all cargo headed to and from the country to check for contraband goods.
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JEDEC tackles counterfeiters with new standard
International standards body JEDEC has published JESD243, which addresses manufacturers’ responsibilities in the fight against counterfeit electronic parts.According to the body, JESD243 – which applies to monolithic microcircuits, hybrid microcircuits and discrete semiconductors – identifies the best commercial practices that should be adopted by all manufacturers of electronic parts to avoid counterfeit products entering the supply chain.In a wide ranging definition, JEDEC says a manufacturer of parts is an original component manufacturer, an authorised aftermarket manufacturer or any other company that manufactures products under its own logo name or trademark.
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Doncaster trading standards officers seize 85,000 counterfeit cigarettes in black market clamp down
More than 85,000 fake cigarettes – plus 40kg of illicit rolling tobacco – have been seized in Doncaster in less than a year.Trading Standards officers found the counterfeit smoking materials using dogs, who sniffed out some of the haul stashed behind secret doors and in hidden panels.The illicit products discovered since April last year were worth an estimated £25,000.
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Rimutaka prison guard jailed for corruptly smuggling in phones, tobacco, food
He used to be on the right side of the bars. Now a prison guard will experience life on the other side of lock and key.Alofainu’uTuisamoa, 42, a corrections officer at Rimutaka prison for 10 years, was jailed on Friday for taking $36,400 from prisoners in return for supplying them with goods like phones, tobacco and fast food.
Tuisamoa, who was caught as part of another investigation within the prison, was sentenced by Wellington District Court judge Denys Barry to two years and two months jail.
He had pleaded guilty to corruptly accepting a bribe to take in unauthorised items to a prisoner and of supplying tobacco against the regulations.
FG Empowers SON To Jail Substandard Product Dealers For 10yrs
Federal Government has empowered Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to jail dealers in substandard products for ten years. Thus, SON has given a 24 hours ultimatum to tyre dealers in the country to destroy every fake tyre in their stock or face prosecution.
Acting Director General of SON, Dr. Paul Angya, gave the ultimatum at a stakeholder’s forum for tyre dealers in Lagos, stating: “Our new Act 2015 empowered us to jail promoters of sub-standard product up to 10 years and we will not relent to jail any culprit. Dr.Angya who said that the era of seizure and destruction of fake and substandard products was over, made reference to a recent report by the Road Safety Commission stating that out of 8,986 accidents recorded in 2015, 722 were due to tyre bursts, resulting in the death of 446 persons.
Fake Bake refreshes brand identity
Popular self-tan Fake Bake has refreshed their brand identity to celebrate their 15th anniversary in the UK. The new packaging is part of an overall brand strategy for Fake Bake, which will position them more uniformly on a global scale. Consumers in the UK will start to see the new packaging this month, and it will expand to Fake Bakes’ global locations throughout 2016.
The packaging which was designed in-house, took 6 months to perfect. Fake Bake worked with focus groups and took into consideration feedback from top beauty journalists to ensure the redesign was consumer friendly.
http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/design/new-packs/fake-bake-refreshes-brand-identity-17-03-2016
Lear MoreBe Wary of Fake Food Online
The online grocery channel is expected to grow 15 to 18 percent over the next decade, according to a study from consultancy ATKearney. A subset of this business growing at the same time is the sale of fake food products.
The estimated value of the global counterfeiting marketing for food today is $49 billion, according to NetNames, a leading online brand protection firm that tracks, identifies, and removes rogue websites. The firm says fake food products account for as much as 15 percent of all the illegal goods seized in six leading global markets.