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06 February 2015
06.02.15 - A dodgy shopkeeper hid cheap, fake cigarettes in chocolate boxes and a secret staircase compartment in a bid to avoid capture. Govan Amin, 33, was found with 6,400 counterfeit cigarettes and 7.2kgs of illicit hand-rolling tobacco following an investigation by West Yorkshire Trading Standards.
05 February 2015
05.02.15 - Fake make-up on sale containing up to 200 TIMES the safe limit of chemicals including arsenic, lead, mercury, copper and cadmium.
05 February 2015
05.02.15 - Crime gangs on the run as agency sets sights on seizing £13m assets in Northern Ireland... According to officers, this will be one of the most effective ways to shut down many of the dangerous crime gangs involved in drugs, extortion, counterfeit goods and money laundering.
05 February 2015
05.02.15 - A successful prosecution was taken last month against a pub in Cavan over counterfeit vodka seized by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). Hughie's Bar on Church Street in Kingscourt pleaded guilty after the counterfeit Smirnoff Red Label was discovered. The bar was fined €7,000 for four offences including selling below-strengths counterfeit vodka and misleading customers regarding packaging and labelling. Costs of €2,000 were also imposed.
05 February 2015
05.02.15 - THE black market was dealt a hefty blow after a customs operation recovered 14,400 illegal cigarettes and more than 142 litres of alcohol in Crewe.
04 February 2015
04.01.15 - A PROLIFIC bootlegger narrowly avoided jail after being caught with 471 dodgy DVDs at Pitsea market. Andrew Evans, 38, had already been caught selling counterfeit films in south Essex four times when he was picked up by undercover trading standards officers in May last year.
04 February 2015
04.02.15 - SHOPKEEPERS in Bradford are being urged not to give into the temptation of buying cheap tobacco products.
02 February 2015
02.02.15 - Discussion heats up over how best to crack down on illicit trade in Scotland.
30 January 2015
30.01.15 - A man has been arrested after counterfeit goods were seized by police in a series of organised crime raids. The 65-year-old man was held by officers from the organised crime and counter terrorism unit after the operation in Lanarkshire.
30 January 2015
30.01.15 - A former Royal Navy chef has been jailed after conning frozen food giant Iceland into selling the wrong kind of fish to customers. A judge branded the £1.1 million fraud a "scandal" and said public confidence at a time of heightened concern about the origin and identification of food was "seriously undermined".
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