Nigeria’s border closures haven’t served their purpose
The continued cross-border smuggling raises questions about the strategy’s effectiveness and the real reasons behind it In August 2019, Nigeria
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Smuggling
Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco
Lithuanian Border Guards stop smuggled cigarettes from Belarus
At Lithuania’s Kėdainiai railway station, after stopping and checking the cargo line, border guards found 12.5 thousand packets of smuggled
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Polish Border Guard seize 6.4 million złoty worth of illegal cigarettes, brought in from Western Europe.
Officers determined that a large shipment of tobacco products could reach Poland without Polish excise stamps. They planned actions and carried
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Polish Border Guards prevented the smuggling of 554 kg of raw tobacco.
During joint operations on the A4 motorway, officers of the Border Guard and KAS in a passenger car revealed half
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Officers from the facility in Hrebenne, acting on the order of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Zamość, arrested seven members
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Lithuanian Border Guards Pull Smuggled Cigarettes Out of the Nemunas River Again
Officers of the Lithuanian border guard of the Varėna border team of the SBGS noticed a suspicious quadrangular shape in
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Polish-Czech operations against the tobacco mafia
Officers from the Border Guard Post in Jelenia Góra and the Czech customs services from Hradec Kralove, coordinated by Europol,
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Illicit Tobacco Taskforce targets international and domestic tobacco smuggling rings
The Australian Border Force (ABF) led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) has disrupted the activities of two alleged organised crime syndicates
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A total of 13 individuals were arrested in Denmark for their alleged role in smuggling counterfeit cigarettes produced in a clandestine factory and destined to the United Kingdom
The timely exchange of intelligence via Europol between the Danish, Dutch and Polish investigators was essential in the success of
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US Agriculture Specialists Intercept Potentially Dangerous Tanzanian Wasps and Mantids
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialists in Memphis, TN were inspecting a shipment from Tanzania in route to
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Cigarettes seized by the Romanian border police
On March 8 this year, at the level of the Sighetu Marmației Border Police Sector, an action was carried out
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Police and customs authorities worldwide are warning the public to be vigilant with their gift-giving after they have seized over €16 million worth of fake toys during the recent festive period
Close to 5 million counterfeit toys have been confiscated as a result of Operation LUDUS organised by Europol with the
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Ukraine Border Guards Prevent Groups Smuggling Cigarettes to Romania
Border guards of the Chernivtsi border guard detachment prevented two attempts to smuggle cigarettes to Romania. During the patrolling, Ukraine
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Argentine Gendarmerie seize group using hoses to smuggle oil to Bolivia
Argentine Gendarmerie Force personnel raided a farm located on the Argentine side of the Quebrada Internacional, where they discovered an
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Ukrainian border guards prevented smugglers from transporting tobacco products worth almost 22,225 euros into EU.
The other day, border guards from the Seliatyn BG division prevented smugglers from transporting tobacco products worth almost 750,000 hryvnias
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UNODC Launch Annual ‘Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime’ Report
It is impossible to identify clear pan-continental, let alone global, trends on how COVID-19 has impacted wildlife crime to date.
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Raft Used To Smuggle Cigarettes
Border guards of the Pavoverė firewall of the SBGS Vilnius border team received information about a suspicious object observed in
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Border Guards Thwart Largest Ever Attempt to Smuggle Cigarettes Across Polish Border
Polish Border Guards prevented the smuggling of over 1.8 million packs of illegal cigarettes. The value of contraband intercepted at
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