This is what £72k in cash looks like – seized from couple who ran illegal tobacco shop from home
August 18, 2016
A 73-year-old Forest of Dean man and his wife ran a contraband cigarette and tobacco shop from their home for several years, a...
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August 18, 2016
Clinton Walker, 34, confessed to his role in the conspiracy to bring in at least $400,000 in fake U.S. Federal Reserve notes into...
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Fake auto parts industry growing at alarming rate
August 18, 2016
The spiralling growth of Indian automobile industry has also led to an increase in the notorious counterfeiting business. Every...
Learn MoreName and shame smugglers, consumer group urges Customs
August 18, 2016
After alleged drug personalities, consumer watchdog United Filipino Consumers and Commuters (UFCC) now wants government to name...
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Tax dodging shopkeeper fails in bid to get free from jail
August 17, 2016
Dewsbury shopkeeper who was jailed after he dodged £80,000 tax by selling fake branded cigarettes and tobacco has lost a Court of...
Learn MoreCambodian Arrested for Smuggling Fake Smokes to Thailand
August 17, 2016
A Cambodian woman was arrested on Monday for smuggling counterfeit Thai cigarettes worth about six million baht (about $190,000)...
Learn MorePopping Down to the Shops and Into Australia’s Booming Tobacco Black Market
August 17, 2016
As of September 1, 2016 the tobacco tax is set to increase again. Next month’s surge is expected to raise ciggie prices by...
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SON Decries Fake Products Imports
August 17, 2016
The Standard Organisationof Nigeria (SON), a regulatory body superintending the prevention of importation of substandard goods...
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Cambodian arrested smuggling fake Thai cigarettes
August 16, 2016
A Cambodian woman has been arrested for smuggling counterfeit Thai cigarettes worth about six million baht into Thailand after...
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Shopkeepers given 200 hours unpaid work after fake tobacco worth £80,500 on sale
August 15, 2016
Two shopkeepers from Nottingham have each been given a 12 week sentence, suspended for 24 months, 200 hours unpaid work and...
Learn MoreOver £80,000 Worth of Fake Tobacco on Sale in Two Nottingham Shops
August 15, 2016
Adnan Mohamed (29) of Dryden Street, Nottingham, who runs the Biedronka shop on Berridge Road, and Bahman Karimi,(25), of Norton...
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One in ten cigarettes contraband, say Southampton researchers at BAT
August 14, 2016
A report commissioned by tobacco firms including BAT, still one of Southampton’s largest employers, has found that 16 per cent of...
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