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April 13, 2016

Consumers in Oman who are buying a mobile phone can now make sure if the product on offer is genuine or fake. The...

April 13, 2016

The country suffers an annual loss of over Rs 20 billion owing of illegal tobacco trade as international smugglers have allegedly...

April 13, 2016

Alibaba Group has become the first e-commerce company to join the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) – the world’s...

April 10, 2016

More of the water and juice on the Kenyan market is counterfeit, KRA has said, noting the loss of billions of shillings in...

April 9, 2016

A gang that produced spurious liquor and distributed it as premium liquor brands with original holograms procured from Haryana...

April 9, 2016

One of the eight New Jersey State Prison inmates originally accused of participating in a large-scale tobacco smuggling operation...

April 7, 2016

The purported “popularity” of a particular piece of public policy should not be the end-all justification for its passage. Such...

April 7, 2016

A TEENAGE couple were caught trying to smuggle tobacco valued at more than £11,000 in unpaid duty through Leeds Bradford Airport,...

April 7, 2016

The rampant rise and open selling of smuggled cigarettes in many parts of Mindanao have prompted revenue, customs and...

April 6, 2016

Xfinity Series owner and driver Derek White has been suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violation of its membership policy. The...

April 6, 2016

A local man and a juvenile have been sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for a year, for being involved in a £110,000...

April 6, 2016

Nearly a third of Gibraltar’s income is derived from tobacco smuggling, according to the Spanish tax authorities....