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Latest News - Cigarettes & tobacco

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Christmas shoppers warned after Border Force seize counterfeit goods

01 December 2015

01.12.15 - Border Force officers are warning festive shoppers against buying counterfeit goods this Christmas after seizing thousands of fakes at the UK's ports, airports and postal hubs.

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Good advice from Which? when buying on-line

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Which? is urging consumers to avoid fraudulent websites, as well as fake and counterfeit products, ahead of frenzied Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales shopping.

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Shopkeeper with haul of 13,000 counterfeit cigarettes & 7kg dodgy tobacco sentenced

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Mohammad Abraham, owner of Faraz Supermarket on Cannock Road, Wolverhampton, was told he could have put his customers at risk as he was sentenced at the city's magistrates court.

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How to tell counterfeit from genuine items on Black Friday

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Last year, over one million people found they had bought a counterfeit.

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Counterfeit Disney toys seized in black market crackdown

23 November 2015

23.11.15 - Ireland's booming Christmas black market is now worth more than €500m.

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Penallta man sentenced after he was caught selling counterfeit tobacco & cigarettes

20 November 2015

20.11.15 - Michael Khakias, 70, of Buzzard Close, Penallta, appeared before Newport Crown Court on November 6 after he was caught selling the counterfeit goods by Trading Standards.

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Crime groups currently working in rackets including drugs, prostitution, money laundering, tobacco smuggling, counterfeit goods and extortion, in the Glasgow area

18 November 2015

18.11.15 - A CRIME-BUSTING police squad have claimed to have stopped Glasgow gangsters from getting their hands on more than £5 million in business contracts.

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Counterfeit tobacco found under floorboards, inside a speaker & a fridge!

17 November 2015

17.11.15 - Hackney Trading Standards carried out inspections at six premises including a Kebab shop.

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Two jailed in tobacco trading fraud

17 November 2015

17.11.15 - Two men, who were caught red-handed trading in smuggled, counterfeit tobacco have been jailed, after they were investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

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Warning to N London smokers after £10k of 'dangerous' counterfeit tobacco seized in Tottenham

16 November 2015

15.11.15 - “When you buy counterfeit tobacco, you are also buying product manufactured and distributed by cross-border organised crime, so you're ultimately putting money into the pockets of the sort of international gangsters who are also trafficking people and dangerous drugs."

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About ACG

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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Membership with the ACG is the best way to work with government and enforcement bodies to protect your brand. Our Roadshows and training days help you reach out to police, trading standards and border force officers and tell them about your genuine products.

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