{"id":227607,"date":"2026-07-30T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/illicit-tobacco-successful-raids-are-not-enough-to-put-an-end-to-this-criminal-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:49:02","slug":"illicit-tobacco-successful-raids-are-not-enough-to-put-an-end-to-this-criminal-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/illicit-tobacco-successful-raids-are-not-enough-to-put-an-end-to-this-criminal-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Illicit tobacco: Successful raids are not enough to put an end to this criminal trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successful raids make the headlines. However, they also highlight just how much illegal tobacco can still be seized. Giovanni Kessler, former Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), is therefore calling for far-reaching measures in an opinion piece for Euronews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/30\/illicit-tobacco-successful-raids-are-not-enough-to-put-an-end-to-this-criminal-trade\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful raids make the headlines. However, they also highlight just how much illegal tobacco can still be seized. Giovanni Kessler, former Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), is therefore calling for far-reaching measures in an opinion piece for Euronews. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":227608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}