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April 27, 2015

The illicit cigarette trade is evolving in Virginia as criminals obtain business licenses and open fronts for trafficking in...

April 27, 2015

Stashed away in secret compartments, hidden under trap doors, stored in deep freezers – just some of the lengths shopkeepers are...

April 27, 2015

Police in Kilkis, northern Greece, said on Saturday that they had smashed a criminal racket alleged to have smuggled thousands of...

April 27, 2015

A programme to help farmers distinguish genuine products from fake, copycat and substandard ones is rolling out across the...

April 27, 2015

Dubai Customs reveals figures on World Intellectual Property Day. Dubai Customs made 40 seizures of counterfeit products worth...

April 27, 2015

Authorities Friday seized three carloads of smuggled cigarettes from a depot in the eastern city of Baalbek. The joint...

April 27, 2015

Cigarette trafficking – transporting cigarettes from one jurisdiction to another without paying applicable excise taxes—keeps...

April 26, 2015

India, home to the world’s second highest number of tobacco users (around 275 million), last year had set a target of reducing...

April 25, 2015

It is particularly regrettable that the national Treasury, the ministry that should be at the forefront in efforts to grow the...

April 25, 2015

If you take a medication for your blood pressure, you expect your pill to be what it is labeled to be. This is probably true in...

April 25, 2015

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is highly unlikely to take major steps to shut off the grey or black market on its online...

April 24, 2015

What are the chances that those crisp 1000-rupee notes tucked into your wallet are fake? The bad news is that it’s possible,...