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Latest News - 2015

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Glasgow woman jailed: 2 years for producing counterfeit tobacco products

10 October 2015

10.10.15 - In raids that took place in 2013 and 2014, HMRC Officers found Xiao Mei Wang (48) with thousands of fake tobacco pouches, phoney tax stamps, £2,710 in cash, bogus holographic seals and over 120kgs of counterfeit tobacco and illicit cigarettes stashed around her flat.

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Lincolnshire off-licence issued with warning for selling counterfeit and contraband alcohol

09 October 2015

09.10.15 - Kalya James was faced with losing his premises licence which permits him to sell alcohol to the public from his business, The Mace store, formerly Bargain Booze, at 29-31 Roman Bank in Skegness.

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Birmingham City Trading Standards seize 100,000 counterfeit & illegal cigarettes

08 October 2015

08.10.15 - Cigarettes were concealed behind ceiling tiles, in cupboards, hidden compartments and bags in an attempt to avoid detection. All products will be destroyed in due course.

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Reading Trading Standards seize more than 300 bottles of counterfeit booze so far this year

06 October 2015

06.10.15 - Reading Borough Council's Trading Standards team have so far taken 320 bottles of illegal vodka and beer from 13 unnamed off-licences around the town.

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Shop caught selling counterfeit & illegal cigs loses licence

05 October 2015

05.10.15 - A SCUNTHORPE shopkeeper has become the first in North Lincolnshire to be stripped of his licence to sell alcohol after being caught selling counterfeit and illegal cigarettes.

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Frozen Plastic Doll (probably counterfeit) recalled due to High Chemical Content

02 October 2015

02.10.15 - Plastic doll with a set of rotor blades attached at the back which, when operated, allow the doll to hover just above the ground. The doll is supplied with a USB charger and packaged in a printed cardboard box. The product is or may be counterfeit.

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Counterfeit goods worth more than £1.5m seized by police in raids in Strangeways area

02 October 2015

02.10.15 - Fake clothing, handbags and jewellery confiscated as GMP say they will 'no longer tolerate' illegal activity...

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Buster sniffs out hidden secret of Eccles shop... a stash of illegal cigs & counterfeit tobacco

02 October 2015

02.10.15 - Samane Babakr Mahmwd, 31, director of Zabka (Darwesh Supermarket) Ltd of Liverpool Road, Eccles, pleaded guilty at Salford and Manchester magistrates court to three offences of possessing illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco.

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Dodgy counterfeit toys destined for children in Newcastle are seized by Trading Standards

02 October 2015

02.10.15 - An undercover sting by Trading Standards discovered a stash of more than 1,000 fake or potentially dangerous items.

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Suspected counterfeit goods seized at Nottingham Goose Fair

01 October 2015

01.10.15 - Fifty boxes of Dr Dre headphones and earphones, 10 cuddly toy tigers, 10 sets of plastic flashing teeth and 10 air horns have been taken away by officials to be examined.

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