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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Smuggling
Smuggling of Goods – pharmaceuticals, booze/alcohol and tobacco
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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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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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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