As duties make cigarettes expensive, foreign brands like Luvin Fresh surreptitiously enter the market
NEW DELHI: GudangGaram, Djarum Black, Luvin Fresh or A Mild might induce a haze of unfamiliarity in the minds of most people in...
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Illegal tobacco costs $200M a year
The Lebanese treasury can boost revenues by up to $200 million if authorities succeeded in a campaign to crack down on tobacco...
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DRI seizes cigarettes worth Rs 23 cr at Surat port
In one of the biggest foreign cigarette hauls, officials from Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at Surat identified and...
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Cigarette trafficking spawning other crimes
One frigid afternoon in January, two men transferring cigarettes to a van from a Glen Allen rental storage unit were interrupted...
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Dewsbury woman Shantaz Bi caught smuggling 55,000 cigarettes in 8 suitcases
A woman was caught trying to smuggle 55,000 cigarettes into Britain. Now Shantaz Bi, of Dewsbury, has been given a suspended...
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Smuggled cigarettes seized in Baalbek bust
Authorities Friday seized three carloads of smuggled cigarettes from a depot in the eastern city of Baalbek. The joint...
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Spanish Customs nabs 20 cigarette smugglers
MADRID: The Spanish Customs detained over 20 people who allegedly worked for a smuggling group El Lolo. Customs official said the...
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SMUGGLING of undeclared goods is becoming an issue in Fiji as the Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority yesterday intercepted...
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Illegal ciggies seized during raid on sundry shops
Customs officers have seized 2,000 sticks of smuggled Tex cigarettes from a sundry shop in Jalan Bukit Tambun with unpaid duty...
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Dominican Republic Pays Cost Of Rum Smuggling
As reported by Dominican Today, the country’s industry and commerce minister José del Castillo revealed the information at the...
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HONG KONG: Rather than simply relying on legal enforcement to address the problem of counterfeit goods, brands operating in China...
Learn MoreFDA acts to stem flow of fake drugs and medical gear
Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has inaugurated an inter-agency task force to monitor, seize and share information on...
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