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Latest News - 2015

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12 arrested in Aberdeen drugs & counterfeit goods crackdown

20 June 2015

20.06.15 - Police officers, working with drug dogs and specialist teams, targeted locations in Mastrick, Northfield and Seaton as part of Operation Maple.

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Illegal Edinburgh ‘pharmacy' raided in counterfeit drug busts

19 June 2015

19.06.15 - PRESCRIPTION drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds have been recovered from an Edinburgh flat as part of an international crackdown on counterfeit and unlicensed medicines.

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UK leads way with £15.8 million seizure in global op targeting counterfeit & unlicensed medicines & devices

18 June 2015

18.06.15 - ACG welcomes the news on the recent MHRA driven operation, which led the confiscation of almost £16 million worth of counterfeit and unlicensed medicines and devices. This is the largest seizure of its kind in the UK and is testimony to the fact that unscrupulous networks of criminal counterfeiters are increasingly targeting the UK; placing consumers and businesses at ever more risk.

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Counterfeit slimming pills, erectile dysfunction tablets, condoms & cancer drugs seized in £51.6 million global crackdown on counterfeit medicines

18 June 2015

18.06.15 - Fake drugs and unlicensed medication worth £15.8 million have been seized in the UK as part of a global crackdown on counterfeit products.

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Barnsley man pleads guilty to possession & supply of counterfeit goods

16 June 2015

16.06.15 - Mr Lee Thortersen, 50, of Darton, Barnsley, offered for sale counterfeit cycling clothing and sunglasses through his website, Facebook and Ebay pages, sourcing the goods from China. These included many brands popular in the world of cycling including Castelli, Specialized, Sky Rapha, Trek and Giant as well as the popular sunglasses brand, Oakley.

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Parents & school-leavers conned into buying fake designer prom dresses

16 June 2015

16.06.16 - Students buying outfits for their end of school proms and parties could find themselves forking out for fake dresses - or for no dress at all...

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Safety warning over doorstep traders selling dodgy beds in Hartlepool

16 June 2015

16.06.15 - Residents need to be really careful because in some cases the products may even be counterfeit and not meet the required minimum safety standard.

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Cops seize 500,000 suspect counterfeit cigarettes in house raid

13 June 2015

13.06.15 - Around 500,000 individual cigarettes were found in the swoop by police, customs and trading standards officers in Lanarkshire. The bust, which involved a search of a house in Shotts, is understood to be one of the biggest of its kind in Scotland.

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Black Country shop caught selling dangerous fake vodka

12 June 2015

12.06.15 - A shopkeeper in Halesowen was caught selling dangerous fake vodka which could have made customers 'seriously ill'. Dudley Council trading standards officers made the discovery during a visit to Costcutter on Two Gates Lane.

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Ipswich man spared jail for selling & supplying fake viagra & abortion pills over internet

11 June 2015

11.06.15 - Dmitrij Selkov, of Copperfield Road, on the Triangle Estate, was given a 12-month prison term - suspended for two years - when he appeared before Southwark Crown Court.

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