Bulgaria Deputy PM: Counteracting smuggling of excise goods one of govt’s main priorities
Rumyana Bachvarova, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for Coalition Policy and Public Administration and Minister of Interior, held a working meeting at the ministry building with representatives of five leading tobacco companies in Bulgaria.
Market research ordered by the five companies was presented at the meeting, the press centre of the ministry announced.
“Counteracting the smuggling of excise goods is one of the main priorities of the government – the motives for that are both of fiscal and general nature,” said Minister Bachvarova, speaking at the event.
Uganda adopts SMS to check fake farm inputs
REAL DEAL: Each year, Uganda loses $1.5 billion of revenue in counterfeit agricultural items, like seeds which experts say will be saved by the E-tag system. KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda has tightened the fight against counterfeit and substandard agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizers, chemicals among other items flooding the Uganda market by launching the E-tag electronic verification system. “Proliferation of substandard agro inputs in the Ugandan market is very high at 30% across the country. This is not only causing economic loss, but also leading to destruction of livelihoods.
“Agriculture being the backbone of Uganda, we cannot afford to lose anymore,” Dr. Ben Manyindo, the Chief Executive Officer, Uganda National Bureau of Standards said, at the launch of the E-tag system last week.
LEBQ? Don’t get caught by these dangerous fake toys this Christmas
WHILE The Force Awakens for Star Wars fans across the globe this Christmas, some children may be in for a stocking full of dangerous counterfeit action figures.
Cashing in on the popularity of major movie franchises, dodgy retailers are flogging cheap rubbish to unsuspecting parents with no regard to safety standards.
In a single afternoon browsing Melbourne’s discount stores news.com.au found them awash with knock off Star Wars, Lego, Avengers, Minecraft, Superman, Pokemon, Nintendo, and Disney products.
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More than 41 tonnes of smuggled tobacco seized
TAG: 41 tonnes smuggled tobacco seized Guardia Civil Spanish cigarettes IVA special taxes laws Jaen Madrid tobacco shops tobacco distribution companies 400 kilos of tobacco rolling tobacco machines for cutting Poland Bangladesh
THE Guardia Civil, in collaboration with the Treasury Ministry, has seized more than 41 tonnes of tobacco in the largest tobacco seizure in Spanish history. The amount of tobacco is estimated to be enough to fill four million packets of cigarettes and has a market value of about €6,640,000.
Eleven members of the organisation have been arrested. They are being charged with smuggling and tax fraud, with the total amount of fraud adding up to €5,500,000 when taking into account IVA, special taxes and customs laws.
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Edgware Road shopkeeper hid huge stash of black market tobacco and cigarettes behind fake wall
An Edgware Road newsagent stashed 97kg of tobacco and 92,000 black market cigarettes behind a fake wall to sell to customers and dodge about £35,000 in tax.Murtaba Alijanabi, 46, was foiled when Westminster City Council and HMRC sent sniffer dogs to his shop, Red Sea.
They found 91,160 cigarettes and nearly 82kg of Shisha tobacco behind the false wall, and returned the next day to find another 1,436 cigarettes and 15kg of tobacco.
Authorities cracking down on smuggling of contraband into jail
Two or three times per month, prisoners are caught smuggling contraband into the Cheatham County jail.According to investigators, tobacco, drugs and other items are being left outside the jail for work crews to sneak inside.Cheatham County law enforcement is cracking down. Its latest efforts were caught on tape.
http://wkrn.com/2015/09/15/authorities-cracking-down-on-smuggling-of-contraband-into-jail/
Lear MoreThink Twice Before You Buy These Beauty Products
Last month, we wrote a story titled “20 Surprising Beauty Buys You Can Find At Costco.” Soon after, we started receiving emails from brands we featured asking to be removed from the slideshow. They went a little something like this: “Hi love! Can you take us out of this slideshow? Costco isn’t an authorized retailer of ours. Thanks so much!” Several nearly identical messages later, those 20 surprising buys had been whittled down to six, and our Hm, something’s not right radar started to go off.
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/think-twice-before-you-buy-these-beauty-products-128786024768.html
Lear More250m fake phones sold in Nigeria yearly –NCC
From Walter Ukaegbu, AbujaNEWLY appointed acting Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof.Umaru G. Danbata, has lamented that counterfeiting of ICT devices was beginning to create a huge economic problem affecting a wide range of products in the country.
Danbata who said that mobile phones are especially targeted, with some 250 million counterfeit sold annually, spoke during stakeholders meeting on “Combating Counterfeit and Substandard ICT Devices” in Abuja, last week.
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Mobile Devices Counterfeiting, Negatively Affects National IGR
The acting executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar GarbaDanbatta, has said that mobile devices counterfeiting is negatively affecting the nations Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
Danbatta disclosed this at a one day stakeholders meeting on combating counterfeit and substandard ICT devices in Nigeria, yesterday in Abuja.
The NCC boss said that counterfeiting cheats the country of billions of naira in revenue that could have been raked in through taxes and duties.
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Stewardess jailed for tobacco smuggling
An air stewardess who repeatedly smuggled shisha tobacco into the UK from Dubai, evading more than £57,000 in excise duty, has been jailed for 18 months after she was investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Jade Kaur, from Stretford, was caught with 25kg of non-UK duty paid shisha tobacco and 3,200 cigarettes in her luggage when stopped by Border Force officers after landing at Manchester Airport in November last year.
The 27-year-old was arrested and the HMRC investigation uncovered messages on her mobile phone that proved she had carried out at least a dozen similar long-haul trips while off duty.
Kaur owned up to illegally bringing 275kg of shisha into the UK between July 2014 and see more at :
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