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Latest News - Cigarettes & tobacco

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Tobacco crime gang sentenced

07 January 2016

07.01.16 - tobacco and more than 1,000 litres of illicit beer and vodka, which contained toxic methanol 150 times the legal limit, were discovered.

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Counterfeit cigarettes on sale throughout Tooting as reporter goes undercover with former Met Police officer

06 January 2016

06.01.16 - At corner shops, in car washes, and in transactions outside tube stations, people are buying and selling untaxed cigarettes smuggled into the country by organised criminal networks. In the worst instances, counterfeit cigarettes are pumped full of anything from rat droppings, to human faeces.

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Glasgow mobsters target ice cream parlours to launder dirty cash

06 January 2016

06.01.16 - Police said around 1000 members of crime groups are currently working in rackets including drugs, prostitution, money laundering, tobacco smuggling, counterfeit goods and extortion, in the Glasgow area.

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Biedronka on Hessle Road stripped of drinks licence after counterfeit cigarettes haul

06 January 2016

06.01.16 - A STORE has been stripped of its alcohol licence after two seizures of counterfeit tobacco and cigarettes in just three months.

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Under-age sales and illegal tobacco costs former Elm Park retailer £1000s

05 January 2016

05.01.16 - Senior staff and the company that owned a convenience store will have to pay out thousands of pounds for offences including the under-age sale of alcohol and possessing counterfeit tobacco.

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Buying counterfeit tobacco is not a victimless crime

17 December 2015

17.12.15 - Tobacco smugglers are putting legitimate shops - and their workers - at risk by encouraging smokers to turn to black market cigarettes sold at a cut rate.

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On trail of traders aiming to make €150m from counterfeit goods

15 December 2015

15.12.15 - Garda, Revenue and Customs target criminals in ‘Christmas rush' of counterfeit items.

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Three shop owners prosecuted for selling illicit tobacco and counterfeit cigarettes

15 December 2015

15.12.15 - North Lincolnshire Council's Trading Standards Team and Humberside Police carried out raids on three shops on Frodingham Road in Scunthorpe in September 2014 where they found illicit tobacco and counterfeit cigarettes.

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Last minute present Buying? Don't be caught by Christmas Counterfeits

14 December 2015

14.12.15 - Internal wiring and fusing in counterfeit branded hair dryers was so cheap that in tests, the product overheated. Fake electrical items often don't have a thermal cut off, so when they over heat they catch fire. This happened in our tests.

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Christmas curfew & fine for Bognor Regis man who sold counterfeit goods on Facebook

14 December 2015

14.12.15 - A Bognor Regis man who sold fake designer goods on Facebook and from the back of his car has been ordered to pay more than £2,600 and serve a 10 week curfew.

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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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