Anti-illicit cigarette trade and fighting illegal tobacco requires comprehensive investigative skill sets and networks for an anti-illicit trade (AIT) investigation team because it is mainly linked to local and international organized crime and terrorist organizations for crossing borders, shipments, logistics, producing counterfeit cigarettes, printing fake packs, and banderole.

Globally, the black market takes shares of at least one out of 10 cigarettes, costing billions of USD annually to multinational tobacco companies such as Japanese Tobacco International, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Imperial Tobacco, and local governments.

Weak penalties, poor border controls, low arrest rates, corruption, and high tobacco tax disparity between neighboring countries are the fundamental causes behind illegal tobacco, counterfeit, and illicit cigarettes. For all the above-given reasons, the illicit cigarette trade is a global problem that has increased considerably every year. 

Anti-illicit cigarette trade and fighting illegal tobacco is a global issue, and it is our main focus at Prosecure™ International Security & Consulting.  We track and trace illegal tobacco, counterfeit, and illicit cigarette thanks to the investigative capabilities of our AIT team. The team is highly experienced on the subject thanks to their police, gendarmerie, and customs background. We have conducted many comprehensive investigations for the major tobacco companies.

Our professional anti-illicit cigarette trade and illegal tobacco trade investigation team closely work with our clients to identify: illegal tobacco, illicit cigarette, contraband, and counterfeit products within the black market, perpetrators, criminal network, modus operandi, and triggers behind it. 

Our (AIT) Anti-illicit Cigarette Trade and illegal tobacco trade investigation team offer bespoke solutions to your anti-illicit trade (ait), anti-cоuntеrfеіtіng, and anti-piracy capabilities. We conduct black-market іnvеѕtіgаtіоnѕ, intelligence, mаrkеt sweep, test purchases, physical evidence collection, and litigation support.

Our AIT specialists have done this business solely for years and established a robust network with different public & private sources. The advanced or native levels of Turkish, English, Arabic, Kurdish, and Russian languages are available among our team.

Please ‘Contact Us’ to discuss our AIT capabilities to give support for your fight against anti-illicit trade in Turkey and neighboring countries.

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