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Latest News - 2015

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Woman accused of selling fake designer goods faces 10 years...

03 March 2015

03.03.15 - A woman from Sunderland will appear at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Crown Court on Thursday March 5 charged with the sale of more than 1,300 fakes designed to look like products by brands including Mulberry, Barbour and Ugg.

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Pension scams & counterfeit medical supplies expected to boom

03 March 2015

03.03.15 - As the pensioner population rises, organised crime networks could even seek to infiltrate healthcare systems or become bogus financial advisers.

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Booze and cigarettes seized in Southend and Essex

03 March 2015

03.03.15 - Customs officers swooped on businesses in Southend and Harlow and recovered more than 11,300 illicit cigarettes, 7 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco and 158 litres alcohol.

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Two hundred bottles of fake vodka seized

03 March 2015

03.03.15 - MORAY Council has put out a health warning after 200 bottles of fake vodka were seized from a local retailer by their Trading Standards department.

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Toy wholesaler selling unsafe & counterfeit Disney

02 March 2015

02.03.15 - Toys Warehouse UK Ltd was convicted of unauthorised use of a trademark and possessing unsafe goods.

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£238k fake tobacco ring member given suspended jail term

02 March 2015

02.03.15 - Christopher Smith, 37, of Fields End, Ulceby, admitted two counts of knowingly acquiring possession of goods chargeable with a duty which had not been paid, with intent to defraud HMRC.

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Hanley shopkeeper fined for 12,000 illegal cigarettes

02 March 2015

02.03.15 - SHOPKEEPER Derwan Majeed was caught with 12,000 illegal cigarettes and one-kilogram of tobacco at his store.

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Europol Report: Massive changes in the criminal landscape

02 March 2015

02.03.15 - A decline of traditional hierarchical criminal groups and networks will be accompanied by the expansion of a virtual criminal underground made up of individual criminal entrepreneurs, who come together on a project basis. These people will lend their knowledge, experience and expertise as part of a 'crime-as-a-service' business model. Such dynamics can already be seen in the realm of cybercrime, but in the future these will extend to the domain of 'traditional' organised crime, governing crime areas such as drugs trafficking, illegal immigration facilitation and counterfeiting of goods.

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EU renews war on counterfeit sports goods

27 February 2015

27.02.15 - The call by the European Federation of the sporting goods industry comes with the rugby World Cup in England just a few months away.

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Toy wholesaler sold unsafe & counterfeit goods - fined

27 February 2015

27.02.15 - A toy wholesaler, which sold unsafe and counterfeit goods bearing well-known registered trademarks, including Disney, Ben Ten, DC Comics and Justin Beiber has been fined and had toys seized. Counterfeit wall canvass It was Ealing's first Operation Swan confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, following a successful prosecution brought by the council.

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