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Trader jailed following seizure of 8,000 counterfeit and dangerous items

09 January 2018

Kashif Haq had fake items worth more than £100,000, including iPhone chargers, Beats headphones and Hello Kitty dolls.

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Sentenced: gang flooding streets with potentially deadly counterfeit cigarettes

27 December 2017

A former Freeman Street shop owner has been convicted of trading in illegal cigarettes including knock off Mayfair and Richmond brands.

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Pre-Christmas operations by Ealing Council and the police led to seizure of counterfeit and illicit items

27 December 2017

Overall, 4,797 items of mobile accessories were taken from four premises in Bridge Road, including 3,300 counterfeit batteries which are now being examined for safety reasons.

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'Counterfeit Street': The trail of misery behind the designer knock-off you are getting for Christmas

23 December 2017

How buying fake designer goods can help modern slavery and gangsters whose other activities involve ‘a pump action shotgun, dum-dum bullets and amphetamines'

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City shopkeeper taken to court after selling fake cigarettes from secret stash

20 December 2017

‘Naïve' shop owner Abdulla Qadir has been hit with a court fine after he sold illegal cigarettes from a secret cabinet. The 37-year-old was running Milano Mini Market in Boughey Road, Shelton, when it was raided by Trading Standards.

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Fake goods worth £3m seized during raids in Strangeways

18 December 2017

Fleeing traders closed electronic shutters - trapping customers inside shops - in a failed bid to thwart investigators as they swooped on eleven shops in the Strangeways area of the city

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Two shopkeepers jailed for counterfeit tobacco offences

16 December 2017

Two shop workers have been given prison sentences totalling 20 months for the sale of illicit tobacco at Nottingham Crown Court after a CCTV surveillance operation carried out by Nottinghamshire County Council's Trading Standards team.

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Kent County Council Trading Standards seize counterfeit goods

15 December 2017

The figures, which have been released in the run up to Christmas, show the produce would have been worth almost £9 million if it made it to the market.

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Cigarettes worth almost £20,000 seized in raids

15 December 2017

In total, 77,480 cigarettes, 28.55kg of hand rolling tobacco and money were confiscated in the raids at a shop in Seaham and a home in Blackhall Colliery.

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Raid on Boston address leads to large haul of counterfeit goods

14 December 2017

Information from the public about items offered for sale on a Facebook page has led to goods being seized from a Boston address by Trading Standards.

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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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