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July 5, 2017

This week Revenue Officers seized 8.3 million contraband cigarettes that had arrived into Dublin from China, via Rotterdam. In an...

July 4, 2017

The first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 2) saw cigarette production rise by 60%, imports fall by 75% and...

July 4, 2017

Almost 200,000 ‘illicit’ cigarettes were seized by Trading Standards officers across Lancashire last year, almost five times the...

July 3, 2017

The JCO, code-named ‘Operation Wafers’, targeted counterfeit semiconductors imported into the EU from China &...

July 3, 2017

There is a $100 million illegal gun trade in this country and some of the drugs and guns are being smuggled in via jet skis and...

July 2, 2017

PETALING JAYA: SKF recently supported Malaysian authorities in a raid against a company trading counterfeit bearings in Sabah....

July 1, 2017

PETALING JAYA: More than 100kg of gold bars allegedly brought from Malaysia were confiscated by customs officials at the Kansai...

June 30, 2017

Two lorry drivers who tried to smuggle cigarettes and tobacco into the UK through the Port of Dover have been jailed for a total...

June 28, 2017

Trading Standards officials have uncovered a haul of illicit tobacco and cigarettes during an operation in Grimsby. Officers from...

June 28, 2017

An Assistant Immigration Officer at Tiruchi international airport has been detained by the Air Intelligence Unit of Customs after...

June 26, 2017

A man who had almost 40,000 illicit cigarettes in his car has been given a suspended prison sentence. The contraband in Aran...

June 25, 2017

Nagaland police has arrested 560 people for smuggling liquor and banned drugs during the last 18 months, a senior police officer...