Up in smoke
May 8, 2016
The illicit trade in tobacco products inflicted a revenue loss of Rs27.7 billion upon Pakistan last year, as per information...
Learn MoreAuthorities break up Chinatown buses cigarette-smuggling ring
May 8, 2016
A trafficking operation that used Chinatown buses and cars to bring 2 million contraband cigarettes into New York City every week...
Learn MoreFair Competition Commission seizes counterfeit goods
May 6, 2016
The Fair Competition Commission (FCC) has seized counterfeit products worth 39.3m/- in an operation in Mwanza city between May...
Learn MoreWhy Make in India when you can Fake in India
May 6, 2016
Most of us know at least one person who went abroad during summer holidays and returned flaunting his/her Gucci bag and Prada...
Learn MoreUS cracks down on counterfeiting
May 6, 2016
The illegal importation, distribution and sale of counterfeit products pose a significant and growing threat to the health and...
Learn MoreFuel smuggling syndicate exposed
May 6, 2016
Smuggling of refined petroleum products from Ghana to Burkina Faso through Paga, the capital of the Kassena Nankana West District...
Learn MoreStructural reforms needed to stop agri smuggling
May 3, 2016
One may give the Aquino administration passing marks for keeping the economy grinding at its enviable six percent rate for the...
Learn MoreGoing up in smoke: Terrorist financing and contraband cigarettes
May 3, 2016
In 2000, the United States authorities caught two Lebanese brothers for running a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation, moving...
Learn MoreMan admits sale of counterfeit Garmin products
May 3, 2016
An Arkansas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling hundreds of counterfeit Garmin map cards online.
William Yates, 26, of Fort...
Learn MoreSmuggling, gas, FX threaten survival of Lucky Fibres
May 2, 2016
Incessant smuggling of textile products into Nigeria, gas shortages and foreign exchange scarcity are threatening the survival of...
Learn MoreUS-based funds aiding cigarette smuggling in India, says ITC chairman
April 30, 2016
The chairman of the largest cigarette maker in India, ITC Ltd., has alleged that U.S.-based organisations are aiding the...
Learn MoreTrailer holding 9 million smuggled cigarettes seized at Immingham Docks
April 29, 2016
A trailer containing almost nine million smuggled cigarettes has been discovered by Border Force officers at Immingham Docks.
The...
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