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Rubie's UK Launch Anti-Piracy and Counterfeiting Strategy

01 July 2016

01.07.16 - Rubie's Masquerade, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of licensed fancy dress and accessories, today confirmed its European strategy on anti-counterfeit and enforcement

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Fake Fragrance Sniffed Out

30 June 2016

30.06.16 - Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's Specialist Trading Standards team is dealing with an increasing number of complaints of fake goods – including clothing, footwear, watches, perfume and even DVDs – being sold via selling sites and personal profiles on the social media network.

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Thousands of counterfeit goods seized in Camden

17 June 2016

17.06.16 - The pavements on Camden High Street were bustling with tourists and shoppers on Thursday 16th June, when Trading Standards, ACG and its members arrived in search for illegally branded, counterfeit products.

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Arrests in Londonderry over counterfeit items

15 June 2016

15.06.16 - During the operation, Detectives from Reactive and Organised Crime Branch, assisted by local police, searched three houses and a mobile shop in the cityside area of Derry. 
During the searches they seized a quantity of counterfeit clothing, music, films and documentation as well as approximately £2,500 cash.

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Euro 2016: Drugs and sex gangs being funded by die-hard England fans

08 June 2016

08.06.16 - DIE-hard England fans are funding drugs, sex gangs and people trafficking ops by buying cheap shirts at Euro 2016. It's believed illegal shirt trade is funding drug-runners, people smugglers and vice gangs because these are the people who control the counterfeiting operations in places like China and Turkey.

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Market trader faces more than £100,000 costs after selling counterfeit goods

06 June 2016

06.06.16 - Gulab Singh, also known as Tony Singh or Digpal Singh, of Latham Road, could face nine months in prison if he fails to pay the £89,345, he would still have to pay the full amount afterwards.

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PIPCU shows the Red Card to Crime ahead of the UEFA European Football Championships 2016

06 June 2016

06.06.16 - The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has suspended a website selling fake UEFA merchandise and national kits, as they announce that they have taken down over 10,000 websites selling counterfeit goods since the unit's launch in 2013.

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Newtownabbey woman caught with cocaine and counterfeit goods

26 May 2016

26.05.16 - A prosecutor told Belfast Crown Court that during the search, officers located gloves, hats and boots bearing the UGG logo.

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Facebook faker caught with counterfeit goods

26 May 2016

26.05.16 - Following test-purchases online, Lincolnshire Trading Standards raided Richards' home last August, uncovering over 2,500 counterfeit goods, including sunglasses, watches, jewellery, make-up and other accessories across 16 different brands.

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The dangers of bagging a bargain

25 May 2016

25.05.16 - Fake goods are made in unregulated environments, without regard for health and safety regulations, so it's impossible to know what's in them. It's one thing for your counterfeit designer jacket to shed some stitches but quite another to be put in serious danger through no fault of your own.

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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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