Cigarette smugglers with gang members form Paddington, Southall and Birmingham, jailed
The gang’s smuggling plot was foiled in October 2012 when officers watched Jan Wojcik from Paddington and Pawel Pasnik from West...
Learn MoreThe Counterfeiting Conundrum: How Technology Will Slam the Scam
Counterfeiting is a high-margin $654 billion growth industry largely run by criminal organizations that have few disincentives to...
Learn MoreMPAA Reveals ‘World’s Most Notorious’ DVD Piracy Markets
Home entertainment may be going digital, but illegal counterfeiting of DVD movies remains rampant in parts of the world,...
Learn MoreCARDINAL COMPONENTS, INC., and INFRATRAC are entering into an exclusive partnership to introduce an anti-counterfeit chemical fingerprint, LUTRACORE
Worried about counterfeiters? Cardinal Components, Inc., and its exclusive partner InfraTrac Inc., announce Lutracore®...
Learn MoreIcann, Regulators Clash Over Illegal Online Drug Sales
FDA, Interpol Want Internet Gatekeeper to Take Action Against Suspicious Websites, but Icann Says Its Powers Are Limited. Twenty...
Learn MoreInternational business leaders determine work programme to combat piracy and counterfeiting
ICC Secretary General John Danilovich presided over a meeting of the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)...
Learn MoreCigarette Smuggling Into Vietnam on the Rise
The smuggling of illegal cigarettes from Cambodia into Vietnam is on the rise, according to recent Vietnamese media reports,...
Learn MoreGlad tidings for tobacco firms, smokers
Two players drive the global tobacco industry – the legal and the illegal players. While the former group comprised the...
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I Spent A Day With A Guy Selling Illegal Cigarettes On The Streets Of New York
It’s a cloudy and cool September morning on Staten Island when I make my way to Bay Street looking for someone to sell me illegal...
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Countering the counterfeiters: The art of making money
Legend has it that when the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had to pay for an expensive restaurant meal he would twizzle his...
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Project O-Neptune nets three arrests
CORNWALL, Ontario – Law enforcement in the Cornwall area say a sting operation has led to the arrest of a trio of...
Learn MoreManager of Springfield tobacco sales warehouse admits role in $43 million scheme to deprive government of excise taxes
SPRINGFIELD — A tobacco wholesaler who ran a warehouse in this city pleaded guilty to trafficking smokeless tobacco products, as...
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