Anyone who carries cardamine is not a trader but smuggler. Smugglers lean to unlawful side. IMG ID doesn't say a thing about scanning and demanding cargo but it is lawful ID (it is almost identical to house IDs). So there is possible conflict.
I don't know what traders u use and what IDs you have on them and under what tag they fly. But what ever it is i am sure it is hostile to IMG. Other wise they couldn't dock on Malta.
Also..using untagged traders for purpose of financing tagged faction is OORP IMO. CR and BSG both insist on having tagged traders with IMG ID.
Also, scanning is mandatory by the rules, since in order to react we must know what ID one carries. Demanding cargo is another thing. Our pilots usually do not ask for cargo, but outcast tagged trader with smuggler or trader ID will be stopped (in our ZOI) and maybe even destroyed depending on circumstances (fires at us or refuses any of our demands). Nothing that we didn't see when House police catches a smuggler..except that this will happen in limited part of the system and not in all of it.
Or you just want safe flight zone for smuggling in "neutral" trader?
Very much like mercs and BHGs have their reputation, smugglers who support enemies are listed and they have bad reputation too. So they are monitored when in system. Whats wrong with that....?
also..today i was in game and one guy in lane hacker tagged outcast dessie in tau 37 said to me that i cant scan him cause i am out of my ZOI...10 k from Falkland and i am out of my ZOI?...get real people...
