In August 2011, a unique consignment shipped through air to Dubai was put on hold for inspection after the relevant information was passed to inspectors on duty, who promptly investigated the notification and held off the releasing process of the shipment. The consignment, which comprised of around 700KG of cigars, was arriving from a European country, heading to Dubai and was allegedly targeted for re-export to one of the Arab countries in Asia. Despite the fact that the routing of the shipment and transporter's identify was untraditional in the counterfeit import trend, normally used by counterfeit traders, the officials did not hesitate to consider the information with high level of seriousness and investigate the issue further.