New Report: Money Laundering from Environmental Crime
Environmental crime – such as forestry crime, illegal mining and waste trafficking – is an extremely profitable criminal enterprise, generating
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Smuggling
Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco
Smugglers Equip Train Full of Hidden Cigarettes with GPS Tracker
Ukrainian Border guards of Lutsk border guard detachment found out smuggled cigarettes in the freight train going abroad through Volodymyr-Volynskyi
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Frontex expands its support in Spain for the summer
Frontex and the Spanish National Police have launched Minerva, an annual operation that takes place in three Spanish ports during
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Frontex expands presence in Western Balkans with operation in Serbia
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is expanding its operational activities outside of the European Union with the
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167 Pounds of Illegal Testosterone & Steroids Seized by US CBP
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville seized a shipment of four boxes containing various amounts of testosterone
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1,203 tonnes of illegal pesticides were taken off the market
Between 13 January and 25 April 2021, Europol coordinated the sixth edition of operation Silver Axe targeting the trade in
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More than 10,000 packs of cigarettes and 434 kg of tobacco confiscated on Romanias northern border
At the Petea Border Crossing Point, Satu Mare County, a Romanian citizen, aged 27, from Maramureş County, showed up to
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US CBP and NICB Partner to Target Criminal Smuggling Organizations
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a partnership with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today to prevent companies
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Eel Trafficking by Air Found in Operation Lake-V
Between November 2020 and June 2021, Europol coordinated the fifth Operation Lake, which involved law enforcement authorities from 24* countries,
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Criminal group specialized in illegal cigarette trafficking,
In Romania, an organized criminal group consisting of Romanian, Moldovan and Ukrainian citizens In 2019, in Dolj County, the defendants
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Approximately 150,000 packs of cigarettes, found hidden in metal boxes in a truck
On 31.05.2021, in the Giurgiu Border Crossing Point, a 43-year-old Romanian citizen, driving a road ensemble, showed up for the
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Lithuanian Border Guards Seize Two Hundred Thousand Cigarettes
In Šalčininkai district of Lithuania, a large cargo of smuggled cigarettes fell into the hands of the officers of the
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Bad luck on Sunday for two cigarette smugglers
Following the activities carried out, the border policemen stopped in traffic, on the Vîrfu Câmpului-Dorohoi communication, a car registered in
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Polish Border Guards and CBŚP officers find 400,000 packets of cigarettes, with an estimated value of nearly PLN 6 million
The illegal goods entered Poland from Lithuania in a truck trailer. Officers of the Podlasie Border Guard Unit, as part
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Lithuanian border guards took over an unmanned aircraft that had arrived from Belarus, carrying a cargo of smuggled cigarettes
At midnight from Thursday to Friday, the officers of the Varvėnai firewall of the SBGS Varėna border team patrolled the
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Members of BiH border patrol prevented the smuggling of cigarettes worth BAM 95 000
On 22 May 2021, in the continuation of the Operational Action ‘Štit 2021’, members of Border Police Unit Trebinje prevented
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Ukrainian Border Guards Found Smugglers and Three Shipments of Cigarettes Near the Border With Romania
The other day, cigarette dealers in Bukovyna lost three shipments of tobacco products that they planned to transport to neighboring
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An illegal tobacco factory was closed in the Polish Mazowieckie Voivodeship
Over 12 tons of raw tobacco and smoking tobacco and 26,000 tons were secured. cigarettes without excise stamps. Officers of
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