Cigarette Smuggling Into Vietnam on the Rise
The smuggling of illegal cigarettes from Cambodia into Vietnam is on the rise, according to recent Vietnamese media reports,...
Learn MoreGlad tidings for tobacco firms, smokers
Two players drive the global tobacco industry – the legal and the illegal players. While the former group comprised the...
Learn More
I Spent A Day With A Guy Selling Illegal Cigarettes On The Streets Of New York
It’s a cloudy and cool September morning on Staten Island when I make my way to Bay Street looking for someone to sell me illegal...
Learn More
Countering the counterfeiters: The art of making money
Legend has it that when the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had to pay for an expensive restaurant meal he would twizzle his...
Learn More
Project O-Neptune nets three arrests
CORNWALL, Ontario – Law enforcement in the Cornwall area say a sting operation has led to the arrest of a trio of...
Learn MoreManager of Springfield tobacco sales warehouse admits role in $43 million scheme to deprive government of excise taxes
SPRINGFIELD — A tobacco wholesaler who ran a warehouse in this city pleaded guilty to trafficking smokeless tobacco products, as...
Learn MoreEgyptian man faces tobacco smuggling charges
An Egyptian man is facing smuggling charges after being caught at Larnaca Airport with 63kg of Hookah tobacco. According to the...
Learn More
Patients sue clinics, distributor over falsified spinal implants
Dozens of people in the US have filed lawsuits against an equipment distributor and several healthcare facilities for using...
Learn More
Out of control smuggling has tobacco farmers worried
Farmer Nguyen Van Sau in the southern province of Tay Ninh’s Ben Cau District is relieved that it has been a profitable...
Learn More
How Counterfeit Anabolic Steroids Cross US Border
Anabolic steroids are made in various countries and have to cross international borders to get to their target market. Smuggling...
Learn More
Cornwall cops could lay new criminal charges on smugglers
An anti-contraband tobacco official says new legislation should beef up police force’s capabilities against cigarette...
Learn MoreFeds prosecuting $43M tobacco smuggling case
Federal prosecutors allege a Connecticut man defrauded taxpayers in that state and in Massachusetts of $43 million in a tobacco...
Learn More