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Latest News - 2015

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Couple electronically tagged over counterfeit cigarettes

09 January 2015

09.01.15 - TWO people must wear electronic tags for four months after they pleaded guilty to selling illegal tobacco. Lynn Phillips, 57, and David Charters, 47, both of Conyers Crescent, Horden, pleaded guilty to selling and possessing counterfeit cigarettes and possessing rolling tobacco, which did not carry the required health warnings on the packaging.

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Nottingham man jailed over fake cigarettes

07 January 2015

07.01.15 - A St Ann's man has been jailed after admitting possessing counterfeit cigarettes.

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Pair ordered to pay back ill-gotten gains

07 January 2015

07.01.15 - Two men prosecuted by KCC Trading Standards for selling counterfeit sportswear will have thousands of pounds confiscated. Hanif Patel was jailed for 15 months and Patrick Tucker for 12 months in May 2013, for conspiracy to sell counterfeit goods between August 2010 and May 2012. At confiscation proceedings on January 2 at Maidstone Crown Court, Patel was ordered by Judge Charles Macdonald QC to pay £71,775 plus costs of £13,234.

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Thousands of Illegal Cigarettes in Secret Compartments

07 January 2015

07.01.15 - Warwickshire Trading Standards, acting on intelligence, visited ten shops across all five districts and boroughs in search of illegal or fake and non-duty paid tobacco.

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17 charges relating to selling of counterfeit medications

06 January 2015

06.01.15 - Dmitrij Selkov, of Handford Road, Ipswich, is accused of 17 medicine regulation and trademark offences after being charged following a lengthy inquiry, codenamed Clumber. The case is understood to revolve around various prescription drugs being sold over the internet, including abortion medicines.

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Southampton shop could lose licence

06 January 2015

06.01.15 - A SOUTHAMPTON shop is facing a licence review after almost 200 bottles of illicit alcohol were seized. Customs and trading standards officers swooped on Best-One in St Mary Street last year and seized 196 bottles that were either without duty stamps or had suspected counterfeit labels.

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Contraband tobacco found hidden in shop

05 January 2015

05.01.15 - Qadeer Akhter, 31, of Nevett Street, Callon, Preston, was summonsed to Preston Magistrates' Court on allegations he supplied counterfeit tobacco at Megasaver, on Fishergate Hill, Preston.

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Dentists to be warned of rise in fake equipment

05 January 2015

01.01.15 - Among items seized have been dental drills that come apart and x-ray machines that produce too much radiation.

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Counterfeit & Illegal Goods

02 January 2015

02.01.15 - Illegal fireworks and counterfeit clothing are just some of the items that have been confiscated by Wrexham Trading Standards recently.

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