ABF targets Townsville in high-visibility border blitz
The Australian Border Force (ABF) staged a week of action in Townsville last week, focused on ensuring proper processes for
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Customs and Trade
Contraband cigarettes discovered by Coast Guard border guards in special compartments in the walls of a ship arriving from Libya
Border police officers from the Coast Guard, accompanied by a service dog, managed to identify a quantity of contraband cigarettes
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Drone smuggling at the northern border
Border policemen from the Territorial Service of the Satu Mare Romanian Border Police noticed a noise produced by a small
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Home searches in a criminal case concerning 64 shipments containing more than 328 tons of unprocessed tobacco
Over 100 border police officers implement 23 home search warrants in a criminal case aimed at breaking up a tobacco
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Cash, vapes and illegal tobacco seized in huge multi-agency tobacco raids
The ABF-led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) and partner agencies have shattered a large scale illegal tobacco syndicate in a series
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US CBP Officers in Louisville Intercept 130 Designer Watches Worth $4.24 Million
One of the most common counterfeited items seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are watches, and one
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Luxury Jewelry, Handbags, Watches & More Worth almost $800K Intercepted by CBP Officers at Chicago’s International Mail Facility
At Chicago O’Hare’s International Mail Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized two packages containing 614 pieces of
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Baltimore US CBP Officers Seize $314K in Counterfeit Converse-like Sneakers
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but we’re sure Chuck Taylor would come apart at the seams if he
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Perfumes, handbags and purses for over 3 million leva were detained by Bulgarian customs officers
More than 55 000 perfumes and nearly 6000 bags and purses with figurative images and inscriptions of various trademarks were
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Contraband cigarettes worth approximately 2.3 million euros, discovered at PTF Giurgiu, Romania
At the Giurgiu Border Crossing Point, a 53-year-old Bulgarian citizen presented himself to enter the country, driving a road combination
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Bulgarian customs officers at Lesovo BCP found 600 000 contraband cigarettes in furniture
Bulgarian customs officers at Lesovo BCP detained 600 000 pieces (30 000 boxes) of contraband cigarettes during an inspection of
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Over 260,000 pieces contraband cigarettes, hidden in furniture, were discovered by the Bukgarian customs officers
On 23.05.2023, a truck with a foreign registration arrived on the inbound route of the customs point. The driver –
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Approximately three tons of goods likely to be counterfeit arrived from China, confiscated at Henri Coandă-Otopeni Airport
The action was started at the beginning of May, when on May 9, in the Cargo area of the Henri
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Three shipments containing 3,165 counterfeit items worth over $3.1M Seized by Louisville US CBP in one night
May 8 was a busy night for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville. CBP officers in Louisville
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2,400 pieces of counterfeit jewelry worth over $4.41M seized by Louisville US CBP
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville seized three shipments of jewelry for bearing counterfeit designer trademarks while
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Bulgarian customs officers at Bourgas Airport BCP seized over 2500 boxes of cigarettes from the luggage of five passengers
The customs officers of the Bourgas Airport BCP seized 2569 boxes (51 380 pieces) of cigarettes from the luggage of
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Over 66,000 packs of cigarettes, 550,684 lei and sums in foreign currency seized following 14 searches in Maramureș, Romania
On the 23.02.2023, border police from ITPF Sighetu Marmației together with Territorial Service of the Border Police Maramureș and Sighetu
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Over 650,000 cigarettes hidden in the roof of a semi-trailer, discovered by Romanian border police
Border policemen from the Bechet Border Police Sector and the Dolj Border Police Territorial Service, together with workers from the
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