DOF clears BIR use of tobacco tax stamps to arrest smuggling
The Department of Finance (DOF) has cleared the implementation of tax stamps on cigarettes in a bid to minimize smuggling. In a...
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is focusing a sharper eye on how digital currencies like bitcoin can be...
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Police foil €1m counterfeit wine scam in Italy
Vineyard in TuscanyItalian police have smashed a counterfeiting ring, seizing thousands of litres of fake wine with an estimated...
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Fans educated on fake Rugby World Cup tickets
The organisers of the Rugby World Cup 2015 have launched a campaign to prevent fans from buying unofficial tickets and...
Learn MoreMen charged over organised crime
The pair, aged 31 and 32, are accused of blackmail and belonging to or professing to belong to a proscribed organisation.They are...
Learn MorePair in court over counterfeit car goods
Standing side by side in the dock at Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursday, Stephen Anderson, 47, and his wife Elizabeth Helen...
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Lovely jubbly! Man trading as ‘Del Boy Pedro’ caught selling counterfeit goods
A man trading as ‘Del Boy Pedro’ on the internet has been caught selling counterfeit goods. Jonathon Nicholls, 24, admitted 13...
Learn MoreCorrections officer pleads guilty to smuggling pot, tobacco into prison
A corrections officer at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex pleaded guilty to smuggling tobacco and marijuana into the...
Learn MoreIllicit cigarette study is blowing smoke, says council on smoking and health
One out of three cigarettes smoked in Hong Kong last year was illicit, costing the government more than HK$3.2 billion in lost...
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Venezuela holds 13 and seizes tonnes of food in smuggling crackdown
Venezuela says it has arrested 13 people and seized 136 tonnes of food since it launched an anti-smuggling operation on its...
Learn MoreInterpol’s Michael Ellis: How counterfeiting is affecting all walks of life
Counterfeiters will fake anything that they can sell. Interpol has found everything from fake crash helmets that disintegrate...
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Black market in tobacco booming in the streets of Sydney, with cheap Asian imports flooding the streets
IT IS emerging as one of the most lucrative illegal trades on the streets of Sydney’s southwest, but it’s not drug dealing or car...
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