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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.
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.
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.
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.
02 March 2015
02.03.15 - Toys Warehouse UK Ltd was convicted of unauthorised use of a trademark and possessing unsafe goods.
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.
02 March 2015
02.03.15 - SHOPKEEPER Derwan Majeed was caught with 12,000 illegal cigarettes and one-kilogram of tobacco at his store.
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.
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.
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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