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crooked vendors exploiting flaw in eBay’s feedback system
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Crooked vendors exploiting flaw in eBay’s feedback system to con buyers into purchasing bogus and dangerous items

Buyers on eBay are being duped into purchasing substandard and counterfeit products due to a flaw in the online auction...

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Articles2 years ago

Major ‘lover boy’ prostitution gang broken up by coalition of European law enforcement agencies
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Articles2 years ago

Taking cocaine will not cure people struck down with the coronavirus, French government warns public

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opinion

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Opinion2 years ago

Why you should worry about more than your device’s search history when viewing porn online
exploiting public fears over the deadly coronavirus outbreak exploiting public fears over the deadly coronavirus outbreak
Opinion2 years ago

Scammers the world over are exploiting public fears over the coronavirus outbreak
America’s methamphetamine crackdown enriched Mexican drug cartels America’s methamphetamine crackdown enriched Mexican drug cartels
Opinion2 years ago

How America’s methamphetamine crackdown enriched Mexican drug cartels and made the country’s problem with the drug worse
terrorist prisoners should remain behind bars terrorist prisoners should remain behind bars
Opinion2 years ago

Islamist or far right, terrorist prisoners should remain behind bars if there is the slightest suspicion they could still pose a risk

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ILLICIT FIREARMS TRADE

selling firearms to Swedish neo-Nazis selling firearms to Swedish neo-Nazis
Articles2 years ago

Bosnian migrant jailed for 7 years for selling firearms to Swedish neo-Nazis and terrorists

A Bosnian national has been jailed for more than seven years by a US court in Washington state after being...
US court charges Saudi men with firearms trafficking offences US court charges Saudi men with firearms trafficking offences
Articles2 years ago

US court charges Saudi men with firearms trafficking offences in their absence

Prosecutors in the US have charged three men from Saudi Arabia with illegally purchasing firearms parts worth an estimated $100,000...
organised firearms trafficking organised firearms trafficking
Articles2 years ago

UNODC holds meeting in Vienna on organised firearms trafficking across EU member states

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) this week convened a cross-regional meeting of experts intended to address...

Illicit Tobacco & Alcohol Trade

subterranean counterfeit cigarette factory
Articles2 years ago

Spanish police discover subterranean counterfeit cigarette factory near Costa del Sol

Police in Spain have raided an underground illicit cigarette factory run by a British organised crime network. In an operation...

Gibraltar and Japan Tobacco International agree to tackle smuggling Gibraltar and Japan Tobacco International agree to tackle smuggling
Articles2 years ago

Gibraltar and Japan Tobacco International agree to tackle smuggling of firm’s cigarette and rolling tobacco brands
illicit tobacco crop with estimated excise value of A$34.5 million illicit tobacco crop with estimated excise value of A$34.5 million
Articles2 years ago

Australian tax authorities seize and destroy illicit tobacco crop with estimated excise value of A$34.5 million

plot to smuggle 16 tonnes of loose-leaf tobacco and 20 million cigarettes
Articles2 years ago

Police arrest man in connection with plot to smuggle 16 tonnes of loose-leaf tobacco and 20 million cigarettes into Australia
UK-based tobacco smuggling gang jailed for ten years
Articles2 years ago

UK-based tobacco smuggling gang jailed for ten years after being caught with over 10 million illicit cigarettes
dismantling of tobacco smuggling operation
Articles2 years ago

Europe-wide operation results in dismantling of tobacco smuggling operation that cost tax authorities €70 million
minimum alcohol pricing pushes homeless to illicit drink and drugs
Articles2 years ago

Scottish researchers to investigate whether minimum alcohol pricing pushes homeless to illicit drink and drugs
1.5 tonnes of smuggled tobacco
Articles2 years ago

Organised crime police in Australia seize 1.5 tonnes of smuggled tobacco worth A$1.5 million
alcohol and tobacco-related products on Facebook
Articles2 years ago

Users can no longer trade alcohol and tobacco-related products on Facebook and Instagram

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Human trafficking

state action against Pornhub state action against Pornhub
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US politicians call for state action against Pornhub over allegations it hosted rape and child abuse videos

Pornhub and its Canadian owner MindGeek should face a US federal investigation over allegations they hosted videos depicting the rape...
police nab six members of gang that charged Vietnamese migrants police nab six members of gang that charged Vietnamese migrants
Articles2 years ago

Police nab six members of gang that charged Vietnamese migrants as much as €20,000 to be trafficked to Germany

Police in Germany have arrested six suspects during a Europol-backed investigation into an organised immigration crime network that is said...

Illicit Pharmaceuticals Trade

European crackdown on counterfeit and smuggled pharmaceuticals European crackdown on counterfeit and smuggled pharmaceuticals
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European crackdown on counterfeit and smuggled pharmaceuticals results in seizure of 34.5 million drug units

A coalition of European law enforcement agencies has participated in a Europol-backed crackdown on the online and real-world distribution and...
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Articles2 years ago

US scientists develop edible security tags to thwart drug counterfeiters

Researchers at Purdue University have created a small edible tag that can be embedded into medicines in order to prevent...
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Articles3 years ago

European crackdown on smuggled medicines results in arrest of 435 suspects

A Europol-backed crackdown on trafficked pharmaceuticals involving law enforcement agencies from 16 countries has resulted in the seizure of millions...

Illicit Goods Trade

EU customs workers seized 31 million bogus products EU customs workers seized 31 million bogus products
Articles3 years ago

EU customs workers seized 31 million bogus products at borders last year

EU customs officials seized more than 31 million counterfeit products at the 28-nation bloc’s external border in 2017, new figures...

Drug trafficking

enough fentanyl to kill 1.2 million people enough fentanyl to kill 1.2 million people
Articles2 years ago

Californian border officers catch Mexican man with enough fentanyl to kill 1.2 million people
European crackdown on illicit pharmaceutical traffickers European crackdown on illicit pharmaceutical traffickers
Articles2 years ago

European crackdown on illicit pharmaceutical traffickers breaks up 12 organised crime networks
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Articles2 years ago

US police attempt to entrap addicts with offer to test methamphetamine for coronavirus
Australian customs officers catch Canadian nationals Australian customs officers catch Canadian nationals
Articles2 years ago

Australian customs officers catch Canadian nationals with 16kgs of methamphetamine at Melbourne Airport

Counterfeit Currency

Canadian police smash counterfeit currency network
Articles2 years ago

Canadian police smash counterfeit currency network that flooded Surrey with bogus US dollar bills

Police in Canada have charged four people with various offences after breaking up a counterfeit currency ring that was circulating...

bogus bank bills with face value of $900,000 bogus bank bills with face value of $900,000
Articles2 years ago

Customs workers in US state of Minnesota find bogus bank bills with face value of $900,000 in Chinese rail container
counterfeit currency networks in Madrid and Bogota counterfeit currency networks in Madrid and Bogota
Articles2 years ago

Spanish police and Europol help smash counterfeit currency networks in Madrid and Bogota

Europe’s second-largest dark web counterfeit currency network
Articles2 years ago

Portuguese police smash Europe’s second-largest dark web counterfeit currency network
Interpol conference on fake banknotes
Articles2 years ago

Counterfeit currency experts gather in France for Interpol conference on fake banknotes
printing homemade bogus banknotes
Articles3 years ago

Singaporean woman facing 20 years in jail for printing homemade bogus banknotes
Kenyan central bank withdraws high-value banknotes
Articles3 years ago

Kenyan central bank withdraws high-value notes as part of efforts to fight corruption and money laundering
euro note counterfeiting print shop
Counterfeit Currency3 years ago

Spanish police dismantle sophisticated counterfeit euro note print shop
euro banknote dark web counterfeiters
Articles3 years ago

Police in Europe arrest hundreds in operation targeting euro banknote dark web counterfeiters

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