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Latest News - Cigarettes & tobacco

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Dudley shopkeeper used freezer to hide illegal tobacco and counterfeit cigarettes

16 February 2018

Sywash Mashkhaty, owner of European Food Express in Dudley High Street, pleaded guilty to seven offences in front of Wolverhampton magistrates.

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Coventry baker jailed for having finger in another pie - a huge counterfeit cigarettes business

15 February 2018

He was given a nine month prison term suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work by Recorder Stuart Sprawson, who also ordered all the cigarettes and tobacco to be destroyed.

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More than 22,800 fake cigarettes which had been illegally shipped from China has been seized.

13 February 2018

The haul with a street value of more than £12,000 had been illegally shipped and imported into the country from China in small packages.

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1000s of counterfeit cigarettes found in Washington shopkeeper's garage

02 February 2018

The court heard HMRC officers attended and seized 9,400 Lambert & Butler-branded cigarettes, which were counterfeit.

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TED Talk: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime

31 January 2018

What's the harm in buying a knock-off purse or a fake designer watch? According to counterfeit investigator Alastair Gray, fakes like these fund terrorism and organized crime. Learn more about the trillion-dollar underground economy of counterfeiting -- from the criminal organizations that run it to the child labor they use to produce its goods -- as well as measures you can take to help stop it. "Let's shine a light on the dark forces of counterfeiting that are hiding in plain sight," Gray says.

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Wisbech shop staff Nazhad Fatihi and Hadi Rafiq fined for selling counterfeit cigarettes

19 January 2018

Shop workers ordered to pay £7,785 in fines between them.

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Over 4,000 COUNTERFEIT items worth more than £130,000 seized in raids in Wales over Christmas

14 January 2018

Welsh councils' trading standards teams carried out 39 raids and netted 4,391 items believed to be fake, including toys, clothes, footwear and cosmetics.

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Sentenced! Shrewsbury shopkeeper who sold counterfeit cigarettes

13 January 2018

It was estimate the counterfeited goods would have made £5,000, meaning the local authority would have missed out on roughly £3,600 in duty contributions.

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Hayes market trader fined £110,000 for money laundering and possession of 1000s of COUNTERFEIT tobacco products

10 January 2018

Around 1,000 packets of cigarettes and 1,000 pouches of tobacco were found bearing counterfeit trademarks for brands including Marlboro, Benson & Hedges, and Golden Virginia.

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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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