Australia’s newly-established Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) has seized six tonnes of illegally-gown tobacco leaf that could have resulted in the loss of A$13.3 million ($9.86 million)...
A treaty backed by the UN intended to disrupt the global illicit trade in tobacco products will come into force on 25 September, marking the introduction...
Australian Border Force (ABF) officers have broken up a multi-million dollar smuggling syndicate that trafficked huge quantities of illicit tobacco through Melbourne Airport. Six people have...
A coalition of law enforcement agencies in the far north of Australia has seized hundreds of litres of alcohol that is said to have been destined...
The Australian government has announced a crackdown on the sale of illicit tobacco that it hopes will raise some A$3.6 billion ($2.7 billion) over a four-year...
Wine, whisky and beer shops in the north of England are preparing for an influx of Scottish drinkers looking to pick up cheap booze after Scotland...
Multi-billionaire American businessman Michael Bloomberg today pledged to spend $20 million on founding a new international watchdog to monitor the deceptive practices employed by big tobacco...
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 government of the Philippines should boost efforts to go after cigarette smugglers rather than raising tobacco duties, an executive from a major tobacco company has...
Thieves have stolen a large quantity of seized illicit tobacco after the UK trade organisation that confiscated it boasted about discovering the haul in a YouTube...
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...
A female correctional officer has been charged with attempting to smuggle tobacco to a prisoner in a western Sydney jail, New South Wales Police said this...