Two-year prison sentences for throwing condensed soup at a plate of glass. No punishment whatsoever for dodging a £3.7m tax bill, selling dud PPE to the NHS, dumping billions of litres of sewage in rivers or knowingly fitting flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower.

Gonna start referring to every UC campus as “DoD-funded” and “Raytheon-supported”

Hugely important and thorough Financial Times investigation into state-backed settler terrorism on the West Bank. Case for sanctions on Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others overwhelming: ig.ft.com/west-bank via @ft

#Indian customs seize 257g of #smuggled gold seized at Kochi airport off flight from #Dubai toi.in/m6cyrZ/a24gk via The Times Of India

Hong Kong customs seizes HK$100 million of contraband goods said to be Taiwan-bound but likely to be sold into PRC evading duties sc.mp/kv7pl?utm_sour… via South China Morning Post

US sanctions architect: ‘We can’t sanction dark fleet by ourselves’ lloydslist.com/LL1151141/US-s…

CBP seizes 14,000 pounds of banned fruit - cargo said to be fresh lime and chayote but hidden behind were prohibited hog plums and passion fruit newsweek.com/cbp-seize-bann…

52 violations in 24 hours… Anyone surprised?

📰NEW PAPER One common misconceptions about informal economies is that they do not pay taxes. In our new World Development article we use a survey of 2500 informal workers in Accra to show that tax burdens can be very real, highly regressive, and skewed: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kC54,6yxDST…

‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

#India customs officials seize 117g of #smuggled gold hidden in cream box at Delhi airport of flight from Riyadh toi.in/f2v1ya/a24gk via The Times Of India

#India customs seize 2,746.49 kg #smuggled gold from Kerala airports in 6 yrs, police record seizure of 112 kg onmanorama.com/news/kerala/20…

3000 #counterfeit Gibson guitars seized by US customs, attempting to be imported from Asia cbp.gov/newsroom/local…

Malaysian customs seize ~17,000 electrical goods such as air fryers, washing machines from 7 #shippingcontainers said2contain TVs and table fans to avoid import standards permits bernama.com/tv/news.php?id…

Italy: EPPO seizes assets in investigation into €9.8 million customs fraud involving e-bikes | European Public Prosecutor’s Office eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/…

Huge haul of #counterfeit Gucci and Chanel goods worth £250k if real seized from shop in Middlesbrough thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24538166.…

🚨NEW: #Panama to kick out ships blacklisted by UK for carrying Russian oil. tradewindsnews.com/insurance/worl… #shipping #oil #tankers #Russia

⛏️Did you know artisanal gold mining is both a lifeline & a battleground? In #BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫, JNIM taxes miners in exchange for security, gaining legitimacy while funding operations. Learn why cracking down isn’t a simple fix. 🧵 1/3

Shadow VLCC that spoofed its way overland to Venezuela ‘didn’t read the manual’. tradewindsnews.com/tankers/shadow… #shipping