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Piracy doubles in first six months of 2009
Wednesday, 15 July 2009AdministratorAverage rating
Piracy attacks around the world more than doubled to 240 from 114 during the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2008, the ICC International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporti ...
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CCS issues new warning following South Africa’s largest corporate fraud
Thursday, 25 June 2009AdministratorAverage rating
With the news that hundreds of wealthy investors from South Africa and other parts of the world have been defrauded of more than one billion rand in an audacious Ponzi fraud, ICC Commercial Crime Ser ...
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Attacking the proceeds of crime
Sunday, 21 June 2009AdministratorAverage rating
ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) recently hosted the organization’s 9th annual Economic Crime lecture. The event was held in London, on 16 June, 2009 in conjunction with Lawrence Graham, Solicitor ...
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FraudNet grows to 50 in five years
Tuesday, 02 June 2009AdministratorAverage rating
Five years have now passed since ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS) launched the fraud prevention network known as FraudNet. With the fiftieth member recently coming aboard, this international assoc ...
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Shipping Industry dismisses reports of targeted Somali pirate attacks
Friday, 15 May 2009AdministratorAverage ratingThe ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB), in consultation with the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERTANKO and BIMCO, today dismissed a number of recent press reports claiming that pirates o ...
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Pirate attacks off Somalia already surpass 2008 figures
Tuesday, 12 May 2009AdministratorAverage rating
The total number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off east-coast Somalia so far in 2009 has already overtaken the figure for all of 2008, according to statistics collated by the Internationa ...
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Piracy attacks almost doubled in 2009 first quarter
Monday, 20 April 2009AdministratorAverage rating
A dramatic increase in activity by Somali pirates led to a near doubling in the number of ships attacked during the year’s first quarter compared with the same period in 2008, according to a report i ...
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Somali pirates take two container ships off the east coast of Somalia
Wednesday, 08 April 2009AdministratorAverage rating
The upswing in piracy off eastern Somalia reported last month by the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has continued into April with a spate of attacks that threaten East African trade.
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Mapping Counterfeiting - CIB launches a new service
Friday, 03 April 2009AdministratorAverage rating
The ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB) has developed the Live Counterfeiting Seizure Map and Live Seizure Report to assist industry in quantifying the scale of the trade in illicit goods.
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IMB reports a cluster of pirate attacks off the East Coast of Somalia
Tuesday, 31 March 2009AdministratorAverage rating
March 2009 has seen a spike in pirate activity off east-coast Somalia, as reported to the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre.
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