Fake clothes and luxury items worth € 16.5 million seized in Spain
The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) and the Portuguese National Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana) and the Authority for Food and
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Smuggling
Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco
Dried tobacco leaves, cut tobacco and cigarettes with an estimated value of over half a million zlotys were intercepted by officers from the Border Guard
As a result of the inspection of two cars – an Opel and a Volkswagen, which were driven by two
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State Border Guard Service seize 22 thousand package of Belarusian cigarettes brought by train from Belarus
Officers of the Criminal Intelligence Division and the Special Purpose Division of the Pagėgiai Border Team together with the employees
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An organized crime group was broken up
The Vistula Border Guard Unit defeated an organized criminal group that smuggled, manufactured and distributed illegal tobacco products. The illegal
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Europol and INTERPOL coordinated operation OPSON 2020, which targeted trafficking of counterfeit and substandard food and beverage
The operation, the tenth of its kind, ran from December 2019 to June 2021 and involved law enforcement authorities from
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US AMO in San Diego Disrupt 8 Maritime Smuggling Events in 4 Days
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) San Diego Air and Marine Branch crews worked with law enforcement
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Smuggled cigarettes discovered at the Romanian with Ukraine
The border policemen from ITPF Sighetu Marmaţiei discovered and confiscated at the green border, 4 .80 0 packs of cigarettes from smuggling, worth over 56 .0 00
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Over 13,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes discovered in Săpânţa, Romania
Border guards observed several people transporting large parcels from the water of the Tisza River to the interior of the
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Courier drone with cigarettes did not reach the border with Poland
UAVs of various kinds have rapidly become extremely popular with the population. The use of drones is not limited to
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Tobacco products worth more than € 2 million seized in Spain and Portugal
The Portuguese and Spanish authorities dismantled the criminal group, arresting 17 suspects The Portuguese National Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana) and
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Latvian border guards stop the regular movement of cigarettes
Border guards of the Daugavpils administration of the State Border Guard suspected Volkswagen Sharan and Ford Galaxy cars driven by
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BOC-NAIA and DENR seized smuggled 276 carnivorous plants
Bureau of Customs-NAIA (BOC-NAIA) together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) seized illegally imported 276 carnivorous plants
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More than 18,000 packs of cigarettes confiscated at Romanias northern border
Border police officers from the Valea Vişeului Border Police Sector , in cooperation with those from STPF Maramureș, carried out
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Azeri elite agrees to hand over £4 million
A Politically Exposed Person has agreed to surrender £4m which was transferred via the Azerbaijan Laundromat money laundering scheme. London-based
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Dismantled an organization specialized in the manufacture and fraudulent commercialization of tobacco between Spain and Portugal
A total of 59 records have been made in Portugal and four in Spain, in which more than eleven tons
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Joint Action Day Arktos – 6.7 mln illegal cigarettes, 2.6 tonnes of tobacco seized
Within just 10 days, law enforcement and customs officers from seven countries, EU agencies and international organisations managed to disrupt
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Cigarettes smuggled through the Bug River, Poland
Border Guard officers noticed two people near the Bug border river. In the forest complex located close to the state border,
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ASEAN, Australia launch Project Portcullis 2021 to tackle illicit tobacco
This month, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia established Project Portcullis 2021, the ASEAN-Australia Task Force on
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