The State Shared Service Center of Estonia

The European Anti-Fraud Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office co-organised a two-day conference in Alicante, Spain to discuss current and emerging trends in intellectual property crime related to the sector of Fast-Moving-Consumer-Goods.

The European Anti-Fraud Office played an important coordination role in a large-scale joint operation that dismantled a cross-border criminal network involved in the illicit production and smuggling of counterfeit cigarettes, with estimated evaded duties totalling approximately €9.8 million.