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October 3, 2014

A FLIGHT attendant has been jailed for carrying out a €230,000 tobacco smuggling operation between the UK and Spain. Dennis...

October 3, 2014

Manufacturer trialling education programme for independents as survey shows the use of illicit tobacco products by consumers has...

October 3, 2014

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) recorded 98 seizures of contraband goods valued...

October 3, 2014

The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seized more than Php 500 million worth of counterfeit and smuggled goods in...

October 3, 2014

MANILA, Philippines—Police seized about P500 million worth of smuggled goods in a raid in Tondo, Manila on Friday, the Philippine...

October 3, 2014

MANILA, Philippines—Police seized about P500 million worth of smuggled goods in a raid in Tondo, Manila on Friday, the Philippine...

October 3, 2014

Expensive handbags and children’s toys were among the hundreds of phony items from a shipment seized by U.S. Customs and...

October 3, 2014

Five people have been charged with stealing code for Microsoft’s recently-introduced Xbox One console, as well as some of...

October 2, 2014

On October 2, 2014, Bill C-8, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act, passed the House of Commons, and proceeded to a first...

October 2, 2014

You may not connect the cheap cigarettes sold under the counter (or out of a trunk, bodega or by a street vendor) with the...

October 2, 2014

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Customs (BOC) filed on Thursday smuggling charges against a Batangas-based trader who allegedly...

October 1, 2014

AS part of measures to successfully tackle rice smuggling, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has acquired Armoured Personnel...