All news on the topic: E-commerce

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Criminal gangs are using Airbnb rentals as stash houses for drugs, weapons and cash
Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said.
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European prosecutors charge five people over $20 million VAT fraud linked to Chinese imports
European prosecutors have indicted five people and a company for allegedly evading more than $20 million in VAT on goods imported from China, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday.
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French Parliament Approves Fast-Fashion Law to Restrict Shein and Temu
France’s Senate on Monday passed a revised bill targeting online fast-fashion retailers including Shein, Temu and AliExpress after more than two years of debate.
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Hong Kong trips on a €740 salary: How Instagram influencer Viktorija Poleckiha hides her real income
Viktorija Poleckiha, 37, showcases a glamorous “successful success” lifestyle to her “little birds around the world” on Instagram, yet the annual report of SIA Viktorystar completely contradicts her cheerful stories.
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Temu fined €200 million by EU after probe finds toxic toys and unsafe chargers
Temu, the Chinese e-commerce giant, was fined €200 million ($232 million) by the European Union for failing to stop sales of unsafe baby toys and chargers on the platform.
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The $1.9 billion blood feud: How Tatiana Kim and Suleyman Kerimov weaponized Putin’s approval to strip Wildberries from Bakalchuk
In Russia, the word "marketplace" is often synonymous with Wildberries. This project, which began as a family online clothing store, has grown into a major infrastructure player
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Half a million volunteers affected as UK Biobank data appears in online black market listings
The government has revealed that information is being sold in China after outside actors accessed the health data of thousands of volunteers spanning decades.
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EU prosecutors investigate €113 million VAT fraud linked to Chinese imports
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Liberec (Czechia), multiple searches and investigative measures were conducted today in Czechia and Slovakia, in a probe into suspected large-scale customs fraud and VAT evasion involving the imports of textiles, shoes and e-commerce goods from China into the EU.
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E-commerce giant to shut 14 stores and convert five into Whole Foods Market locations
Amazon intends to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the United Kingdom to concentrate on online grocery services.
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The rapid growth of AI-powered cloud storage poses a threat to Ireland’s climate goals
Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use
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A report indicates that e-commerce fraud is experiencing significant growth worldwide
Fraud is involved in around 20 percent of the world’s online sales each year, netting criminals trillions of dollars, according to a report from a national security research group.