Trader sentenced over 82,000 counterfeit tobacco haul
July 17, 2017
A trader who was caught selling counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco in East Street Market has been sentenced to a maximum of 12...
Learn MoreCapacity Building Programme for Police Officers on Socio-Economic Impact of Counterfeiting, Smuggling and Piracy
July 16, 2017
Intellectual property is a tool to incentivize innovation and creativity to strengthen the economic growth of a nation....
Learn More
Andrzej Krasnodebski of Poland jailed for smuggling nine million cigarettes in air filters into Dover
July 16, 2017
A lorry driver, who smuggled more than nine million cigarettes into the UK hidden inside air filter units, has been jailed for...
Learn MoreSeminar on Counterfeiting, Smuggling on Feb 21
July 13, 2017
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 (UNI) A seminar on ‘Combating Counterfeiting and Smuggling — An Imperative to Accelerate...
Learn More
Customs recovers N229.95m in revenue through anti-smuggling operations
July 12, 2017
Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja Lagos, has recovered a total sum of N229.50 million through...
Learn MoreNearly €275m of illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized by Revenue since 2012
July 11, 2017
More than a quarter of a billion euro worth of illegal cigarettes and tobacco has been seized by Revenue in the past five years,...
Learn More
Conference reviews fight against smuggling, counterfeits
July 10, 2017
Hanoi (VNA) – Chief of the Office of the National Steering Committee 389 Dam Thanh The named authorities’ asynchronous...
Learn MoreLarge amounts of tobacco, drugs seized by Oman Customs
July 9, 2017
Muscat: More than 26,255 cartons of illegal cigarettes have been confiscated in Oman according to reports by Oman Customs.
At the...
Learn MoreTrio in court over $19m drug trafficking
July 8, 2017
A 15-year-old girl charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs and two men, aged 23 and 24, charged with conspiracy to traffic in...
Learn More
Middle-aged man held over $1.2m suspected counterfeit goods
July 7, 2017
Customs said today they arrested a 42-year-old man yesterday after about 3,000 pieces of suspected counterfeit goods, worth about...
Learn MoreGreece Ranks 2nd in Counterfeit and Contraband Consumption in EU
July 7, 2017
Greece continues to have the 2nd highest rate of C&C (Counterfeit and Contraband, including Illicit Whites) consumption in...
Learn MoreChina smashes drinks smuggling case worth 74 mln USD
July 6, 2017
TIANJIN, July 5 (Xinhua) — Tianjin Customs in north China announced on Wednesday that it has smashed a smuggling case...
Learn More