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Smuggling

Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco

News Smuggling 

US CBP Seizes Over 800 Packaged Prescription Pills

7th February 20236th February 2023 Tony Kingham illegal prescription drugs, US CBP

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (US CBP) officers working at the Port of Shreveport, Louisiana seized a shipment containing 830

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Contraband cigarettes, worth over 1.5 million euros, discovered hidden in a truck

2nd February 20232nd February 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime, romania

On 21.01.2023 at the Romanian Bechet Border Crossing Point, a 51-year-old Bulgarian citizen presented himself to enter the country, driving

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Counterfeit Goods News Smuggling 

3 tonnes of tobacco, 2 million cigarettes seized at EU’s external borders

18th January 202317th January 2023 Tony Kingham counterfeit cigarettes, counterfeit goods, tobacco smuggling

Frontex coordinated an international operation against cigarette smuggling, document fraud, migrant smuggling and smuggling of firearms at EU’s external borders.

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Drugs Smuggling 

During the special action in Plovdiv, over 270 kg of tobacco leaves were seized

10th January 202310th January 2023 Tony Kingham tobacco smuggling

A specialized operation to counter the smuggling of excise goods was conducted at the end of last week by employees

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News Smuggling 

3 tonnes of tobacco, 2 million cigarettes seized at EU’s external borders

9th January 20239th January 2023 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling

Frontex coordinated an international operation against cigarette smuggling, document fraud, migrant smuggling and smuggling of firearms at EU’s external borders.

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Customs and Trade Smuggling 

Man jailed after more than three million cigarettes seized

23rd December 202221st December 2022 Tony Kingham ABF, Australian Border Force, cigrarette smuggling, customs, smuggling

​A man who orchestrated a huge importation of illegal tobacco from the Middle East to Melbourne has been sentenced to two

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Over half a million cigarettes were seized by police during special operations in Haskovsko and Pernik

22nd December 202221st December 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, cross border crime

More than 502,000 pieces of excise-free tobacco products were seized by police officers from the ODMVR – Haskovo during an

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Undeclared gold and silver ornaments worth nearly BGN 74,000 were discovered by the customs officers of the Kapitan Andreevo, Bulgaria

13th December 202212th December 2022 Tony Kingham cross border crime, customs evasion, smuggling

Over half a kilogram of gold and nearly 3 kilograms of silver ornaments were found by the customs officials of

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News Smuggling 

61 arrested for smuggling migrants to the EU via Belarus and Russia

12th December 202212th December 2022 NeilWalker bordersecurity, europol, human smuggling, humantrafficking, smuggling

The criminal network, composed mainly of Syrian and Turkish nationals, arranged the entire trip of Iraqi migrants from Baghdad to

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News Smuggling 

𝗕𝗢𝗖 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗔 𝗳𝗼𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁

3rd December 20222nd December 2022 NeilWalker bordersecurity, CustomsPH, wildlife smuggling, wildlifecrime

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), Port of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), foiled an attempt at wildlife smuggling of 23

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

1,320 kilograms of tobacco leaves packed in 32 bags, discovered by Romanian border police

25th November 202224th November 2022 Tony Kingham smuggling, tobacco smuggling

The Romanian border police discovered hidden in the cargo compartment, 32 bags loaded with 1320 kilograms of tobacco leaves, which

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News Smuggling 

Cigarettes found in railway carriage chassis

23rd November 202217th November 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling

Cigarettes without Polish excise duty were found in the structural elements of the freight train by officers from the Nadbużański

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News Smuggling 

Almost half a ton of sexual stimulants instead of declared liquid soap were detained by the customs officials

21st November 202217th November 2022 Tony Kingham smuggling

During a physical inspection of a truck, customs inspectors discovered the contraband of 22 cartons (1,903 boxes) of sexual potency

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Counterfeit Goods News Smuggling 

Dulles CBP Finds Nearly $80k in Counterfeit Clothing in Passenger Baggage from Cameroon

4th November 20224th November 2022 NeilWalker bordersecurity, counterfeit goods, customs, USCBP

officers last week seized more than $77,000 worth of clothing bearing unauthorized designer brand logos at Washington Dulles International Airport.

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling Wildlife Trafficking 

New threat assessment of global illicit trade in rhino horn finds exploitation by criminal groups

28th October 202228th October 2022 NeilWalker bordersecurity, organisedcrime, transnationalcrime, wildlifecrime, wildlifetrafficking

A disturbing new threat assessment of the global illicit trade in rhino horn has found criminal groups exploiting stockpile systems

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Customs and Trade News Smuggling 

Gunshots during a smuggling operation. Cigarettes worth 70,000 lei confiscated near the Tisa river

27th October 202224th October 2022 Tony Kingham cigrarette smuggling, smuggling cigarettes

On October 21, border police officers on the state border surveillance mission observed, on the Romanian bank of the Tisa

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News Smuggling 

Almost 14 tons of contraband tobacco, worth over 1.5 million lei, discovered in a truck

21st October 202219th October 2022 Tony Kingham tobacco smuggling

Romanian border police discovered, following a check carried out on a truck, the amount of 13,860 kg of shredded tobacco,

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News Smuggling Wildlife Trafficking 

BOC-NAIA, DENR Get Conviction of Illegal Wildlife Traders

19th October 202218th October 2022 NeilWalker bordersecurity, customs, wildlifetrafficking

The Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secured the conviction of

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