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Bradford shop boss faces being stripped of licence for counterfeit tobacco trade

16 October 2015

16.10.15 - Nouri, who runs K&H News & Off Licence in Morley Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to a total of 19 offences, including selling tobacco in packaging likely to be mistaken for a registered trade mark, possessing cigarettes without the statutory health warnings, with intent to supply, and allowing unlawfully imported tobacco to be kept in his licensed premises.

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Former shopkeeper ordered to do community work after seizure of 1000's of illegal cigarettes

14 October 2015

14.10.15 - Kurosh Asemani, former operator of European Foods in Stockton, pleaded guilty to five offences.

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Counterfeit fags factory shut down after Croydon Council finds tobacco worth £500,000 in 'biggest ever' seizure

14 October 2015

14.10.15 - Six officers from the Croydon trading standards team, backed by police, found some 4,600 50g packets of bogus Golden Virginia rolling tobacco during a swoop on the production plant.

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Glasgow woman jailed: 2 years for producing counterfeit tobacco products

10 October 2015

10.10.15 - In raids that took place in 2013 and 2014, HMRC Officers found Xiao Mei Wang (48) with thousands of fake tobacco pouches, phoney tax stamps, £2,710 in cash, bogus holographic seals and over 120kgs of counterfeit tobacco and illicit cigarettes stashed around her flat.

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Birmingham City Trading Standards seize 100,000 counterfeit & illegal cigarettes

08 October 2015

08.10.15 - Cigarettes were concealed behind ceiling tiles, in cupboards, hidden compartments and bags in an attempt to avoid detection. All products will be destroyed in due course.

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Reading Trading Standards seize more than 300 bottles of counterfeit booze so far this year

06 October 2015

06.10.15 - Reading Borough Council's Trading Standards team have so far taken 320 bottles of illegal vodka and beer from 13 unnamed off-licences around the town.

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Shop caught selling counterfeit & illegal cigs loses licence

05 October 2015

05.10.15 - A SCUNTHORPE shopkeeper has become the first in North Lincolnshire to be stripped of his licence to sell alcohol after being caught selling counterfeit and illegal cigarettes.

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Buster sniffs out hidden secret of Eccles shop... a stash of illegal cigs & counterfeit tobacco

02 October 2015

02.10.15 - Samane Babakr Mahmwd, 31, director of Zabka (Darwesh Supermarket) Ltd of Liverpool Road, Eccles, pleaded guilty at Salford and Manchester magistrates court to three offences of possessing illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco.

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Man jailed after possessing & selling illicit tobacco

30 September 2015

30.09.15 - Remigijus Dinkevicius, 46, from Haven Meadow, was given a 16 week sentence at Lincoln Crown Court last week.

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Milkman sentenced for selling counterfeit cigarettes on round

25 September 2015

25.09.15 - Stephen, Paul and Philip Riese had been selling the dodgy tobacco and were caught in a police and trading standards swoop.

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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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