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16 February 2018
Sywash Mashkhaty, owner of European Food Express in Dudley High Street, pleaded guilty to seven offences in front of Wolverhampton magistrates.
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.
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.
02 February 2018
The court heard HMRC officers attended and seized 9,400 Lambert & Butler-branded cigarettes, which were counterfeit.
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.
19 January 2018
Shop workers ordered to pay £7,785 in fines between them.
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.
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.
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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