Asia: Thousands of firearms destroyed following counter-terrorism operation
Terrorism and organized crime are invariably linked to the illicit trafficking of firearms, often across borders. A recent INTERPOL-led operation
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Smuggling
Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco
Approximately 3.8 million packs of contraband cigarettes seized by border police in 11 months in 2021
In the first 11 months of 2021, border guards – independently or in collaboration with customs inspectors or representatives of
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Cigarettes worth over 460,000 lei, seized for confiscation by Maramures border police
Romanian border guards noticed, on the bed of the Laura River, several people carrying several bulky packages from the state
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Countering Illicit Finance and Trade: Better Information Sharing and Collaboration Needed to Combat Trade-Based Money Laundering
Some criminal groups use a process called trade-based money laundering to hide their illicit funds. These schemes can include things
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544 arrests and €63 million of fake pharmaceuticals and illegal doping substances seized
Europol coordinated operation Shield II, a global effort to target trafficking of counterfeit and misused medicines and doping substances. The
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Depleting fish stocks fueling transnational crime
A global operation coordinated by INTERPOL shows fisheries crime linked to other serious crimes such as human trafficking and the
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Philippines Inaugurate BOC-AMLC Coordinating Center
As part of the Philippines Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) commitment to border protection, the BOC together with the Anti-Money Laundering
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Approximately 15 tons of pyrotechnic materials, discovered at the border
Giurgiu border police, together with police officers from the Giurgiu County Police Inspectorate, discovered in a truck, 15,000 kilograms of pyrotechnic articles,
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Three individuals were arrested for illicit tobacco offences
Two men and one woman have been arrested for offences relating to the importation and possession of illicit tobacco under
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Over $20 million of illicit cigarette sticks up in smoke
Investigations are underway following the detection and destruction of 18 million illicit cigarette sticks by the Australian Border Force (ABF).
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Lithuanian Border Guards Seized One and a Half Million Packets of Smugglers This Year
Despite the biggest problem on the border with Belarus, this year remains the migrant crisis, border guards continue to struggle
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Over 1,400 counterfeit clothing items were discovered by Romanian border guards
On 01.12.2021, Romanian border police officers from PTF Giurgiu carried out an inspection of a van, driven by a 53-year-old
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Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire Sign Counter Trafficking Agreement
As part of the deliberate policy of the present administration to enhance regional cooperation in the fight against human trafficking
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Smiths Detection collaborates with Microsoft and Heathrow to develop AI tool to uncover wildlife trafficking
Smiths Detection has collaborated with Microsoft and Heathrow in the development of a first of its kind multispecies AI model
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On the border with Poland, a border guard dog “sniffed out” a pair of “narcotic” sneakers
Ukraine Border guards of the Lviv detachment at the Krakivets checkpoint were checking passengers of one of the regular buses
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Results of a Bulgarian police operation to counter commodity smuggling
A specialized police operation to counteract the smuggling of goods and excise goods was conducted yesterday at the Kapitan Andreevo
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Cigarettes worth 350,000 lei confiscated at the border with Ukraine
Romanian border guards from the Border Police Sector Valea Vişeului, Maramureș County, organized an actionfor combating cigarette smuggling in the area
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23 home searches in the counties of Galați, Iași and Suceava counties for the destructuring of a tobacco smuggling network
In the autumn of 2020, several people formed an organized criminal group, specializing in smuggling cigarettes from Ukraine, smuggled into
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