Customs officers in Saudi Arabia have disrupted an attempt to smuggle nearly five million Captagon tablets into the country. Saudi border force officers stopped a vehicle...
Governments around the world must act to improve global efforts to tackle illicit trade, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Fears have been raised that a planned hike in so-called “sin taxes” on products such as tobacco and alcohol in South Africa could play into the...
The United States Mission to the UN has proposed slapping sanctions on a new list of entities in a bid to shut down “North Korea’s illicit...
A German and a Briton have been arrested in Indonesia on suspicion attempting to smuggle diazepam tablets, heroin, morphine and amphetamine into Bali last month. UK...
Daesh militants are felling fruit trees in eastern Afghanistan and smuggling timber into Pakistan to help fund their activities in the region, local officials and residents...
An investigation conducted by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has revealed that organised criminal gangs are bribing pharmacists and wholesalers to supply...
The World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products still needs the support of six more governments before it can come...
By @Dis_Naija By Harrison Arubu The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) has sacked eight junior officers for various acts of indiscipline including smuggling of prohibited items into...
Border control officers in Hong Kong this week seized the second-largest shipment of illicit cigarettes to be discovered in the autonomous territory this year. The 2.6...
More than 2,000 firearms have been stolen from the South African Police Service (SAPS) over the course of the past four years, an answer to a...
By @truckerworld A smuggler carried contraband on a truckload of car parts. Krzysztof Trznadel placed small boxes of tobacco on top of the large containers of...