Because of the immense profits in the illicit cigarette trade, as well as the potentially low penalties for getting caught, illicit cigarette trafficking now rivals drug trafficking as the method of choice to fill the bank accounts of terrorists and terrorist groups. Investigators have discovered that traffickers in the United States and the United Kingdom are providing material support to both domestic and international terrorist groups.The full contents of the report can be found at:
http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=226&issue_id=22004
One area where concerted action is being taken to tackle head on violations of IPR is the CIS, comprising countries of the former Soviet Union. At the vanguard of this action is the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights. Visit the CIPR site for more information:
http://www.cipr.org/news/index.php
IPR and Counterfeiting is one of the many subjects covered on Security Management Stage 3, 24 September – 5 October 2007.
