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Latest News - 2016

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Market trader sentenced for selling counterfeit goods in New Covent Garden Market

15 March 2016

15.03.16 - Qamar Shahzad, from Wellesey Road, Ilford, admitted to 12 offences of selling counterfeit items at the Sunday market, including a fake Tiffany-style necklace.

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Seized counterfeit tobacco used as garden mulch

14 March 2016

14.03.16 - A massive haul of illicit tobacco seized by trading standards investigators is being recycled by a charity… as mulch for the garden.

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More than 31,000 illicit cigarettes seized from Grimsby streets

14 March 2016

14.03.16 - The illegal trade in counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco can be a major source of funding for organised crime groups.

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Road shows expose dangers of counterfeit tobacco & the steps taken to snuff it out

13 March 2016

13.03.16 - Visitors can win £50 Argos vouchers at the events taking place across the borough from March 14-18th.

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‘Tab houses': Investigators find booming illegal counterfeit tobacco trade in Hartlepool

12 March 2016

12.03.16 - “A lot of the stuff is smuggled into the country by organised criminal gangs. People tempted to buy should recognise they are funding organised crime as the money is reinvested into other criminal enterprises.”

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Wolverhampton pub 'at the heart of an organised crime drug ring' has licence suspended

11 March 2016

10.03.16 - Organised crime & counterfeit goods go hand in hand: crack cocaine, digital scales and several bags and wraps of cannabis were found in the bar and toilets. Yesterday's licensing sub-committee heard that the air was pungent with cannabis when around 40 officers with sniffer dogs arrived. They also uncovered £800 of herbal cannabis in the upstairs living quarters and cannabis production equipment in the cellar. Some 35 pouches of Golden Virginia tobacco and six large bottles of vodka, thought to be contraband, along with suspected counterfeit clothing was also found. Four people were arrested.

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Illegal counterfeit tobacco trader snuffed out

10 March 2016

10.03.16 - A Bognor Regis shop employee who was caught selling illegal tobacco has been ordered to pay £2,000 in costs by Worthing magistrates.

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Dangerous counterfeit toys could have 'choked a young child' seized in Harrow

09 March 2016

09.03.16 - Trading Standards officers seized the toys after spotting them during spot checks on stalls in central Harrow and tracked down the supplier, Dashmesh Company Ltd, and its director Jalinder Ahuja.

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Coventry off-licence loses right to sell booze after being caught selling illegal counterfeit cigarettes

09 March 2016

09.03.16 - Illegal cigarettes includes those that are counterfeit, smuggled, non-duty paid and some not having the appropriate health warnings in English.

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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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