HMRC hails huge cut in UK tobacco fraud
HM Revenue and Customs says it has halved the size of the UK’s illicit cigarette market and cut that for illicit hand-rolling...
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More than 10,000 fake beauty products seized in Abu Dhabi
More than 10,000 counterfeit beauty and skincare products have been seized in an operation launched in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi...
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More than 600m illicit cigarettes seized by HMRC in six months
Between April and September 2015, hundreds of millions of cigarettes and 137 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco worth £232m in unpaid...
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RongKluea raids net another B10m in fake goods 5 Mar 2016
Authorities have seized another 10 million baht worth of counterfeit brand-name goods in raids on the notorious RongKluea border...
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Spa owner sentenced to 5 years for killing woman with fake botox injections
A local spa owner accused of fatally injecting a women in 2012 with fake Botox was convicted and sentenced for murder this week....
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Fake designer goods: Woman fined $6285 for selling faux luxury labels
A DOUBLE Bay woman has been convicted of selling fake designer label luxuries ranging from handbags to underwear and pens. NSW...
Learn MoreDetails revealed on investigation into N.J. prison tobacco smuggling ring
TRENTON – The end to a large-scale tobacco smuggling operation that involved inmates, New Jersey State prison employees and...
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EU Protection to Help Curb Fake Kampot Pepper
Kampot Pepper, famed for its powerful fragrance, has become the first Cambodian product to be registered with a protected label...
Learn MoreState nabs 4 people for smuggling 72,000 packs of contraband tobacco products
Authorities have confiscated about 72,000 packs of contraband cigarettes worth about $300,000 in the last two weeks, and four men...
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Ejected SARS bosses start fighting back; illicit cigarette industry tagged
The genie is now well and truly out of the SARS bottle. Even herculean efforts from the highest office in the land to restore it...
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Organised crime could benefit from change in cigarette laws, says Bury North MP David Nuttall
GANGSTERS could benefit when branding is removed from cigarette packaging, Bury North’s MP believes.David Nuttall made the...
Learn MoreThai Police Seize Almost 900,000 Counterfeit Sunglasses
Police in Thailand announced Thursday they seized almost 900,000 counterfeit brand-name sunglasses at a warehouse where they also...
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