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Latest News - 2015

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Counterfeits: The black market is booming...

11 February 2015

11.02.15 - The black market is booming thanks to the 'invisibility' of online shopping as more and more criminals smuggle guns, drugs and counterfeit goods into Britain through the post.

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Campaign tackles counterfeiters in ‘live' crackdown

11 February 2015

11.02.15 - new campaign has been launched today (11 February) to show counterfeiters how serious their crimes are, and what happens when they are caught by trading standards officers.

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Counterfeits: Swansea man jailed for excise fraud

10 February 2015

10.02.15 - A Swansea man who was caught transporting a van full of counterfeit cigarettes has been jailed for 10 months after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Mark Riley, 53, was arrested in September 2014 when he was stopped by Gwent Police near Monmouth. HMRC officers carried out a search of his van where they found 287,800 counterfeit cigarettes – evading duty of £71,000, as well as £7,500 in cash.

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Counterfeits: Bootleg booze gangs prey on London's poorest

09 February 2015

09.02.15 - Criminal gangs distilling and selling illegal alcohol in London are targeting the city's poorest residents with potentially fatal spirits, an investigation has unearthed.

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Fake Disney Frozen goods seized

09 February 2015

09.02.15 - Warning for parents to beware as highly flammable costumes and potentially toxic dolls discovered in North Devon.

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Illegal tobacco sales are hurting legitimate traders

08 February 2015

08.02.15 - That's the message from one Wakefield newsagent after 10 shops in the district were caught selling counterfeit tobacco or smuggled cigarettes in an undercover sting by Japan Tobacco International (JTI) last month.

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...dangerous counterfeit 'vodka' found behind bar.

07 February 2015

07.02.15 - The manager of a Stockport pub has been handed 150 hours of community service after a bottle of counterfeit ‘vodka' found behind the bar was deemed ‘unfit for human consumption' by trading standards bosses. Theresa Gorman, of The Full Shilling on Tiviot Dale in Stockport town centre, was slammed by inspectors after the dodgy bottle of spirits was discovered at the pub.

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Off-licence... loses fake booze appeal

06 February 2015

06.02.15 - Off-licence SFW Express, in Church Lane, Leytonstone, loses fake booze appeal.

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Dangerous fake make-up 'containing arsenic' seized

06 February 2015

06.02.15 - Dangerous fake versions of designer make-up have been seized from a shop in Warwickshire. Trading standards found the cosmetics, which were counterfeit versions of Mac, Benefit and Naked Pallet in the store in Nuneaton.

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couple who made over £180,000 selling counterfeit goods

06 February 2015

06.02.15 - Black Country couple who made over £180,000 selling counterfeit goods avoid jail. FORMER Dudley Council project manager and his wife who pocketed more than £180,000 in just 16 months running a highly profitable “factory” turning out counterfeit goods at their Sedgley home have avoided spending time behind bars.

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ACG represents more than 3,000 brands affected by this influx of fakes into the UK and delivers an international network of information, advice and contacts on all aspects of IP protection. Working with Government and law enforcement agencies since 1980, ACG is focused on providing an effective and sustained response to counterfeiting.

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