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Border Force officers found 8,100 counterfeit items worth > £1 million during 3 day crackdown at E Midlands Airport

09 March 2017

09.03.17 - Since last November, officers at East Midlands Airport seized more than 114,000 items, with an estimated retail value of more than £4.5 million.

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Call to stamp out sale of counterfeit goods on social media sites

09 March 2017

09.03.17 - A whistleblower wants authorities to stamp out sales of illegal cigarettes, booze and fake designer brands on social media in Spalding.

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Fake fags go up in smoke after M6 crash leads police to merchandise

06 March 2017

06.03.17 - Thousands of fake fags were discovered by Warwickshire Police after the van carrying them crashed and rolled into a nearby farmer's field - leaving a trail of cigarette packets in its wake.

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Fighting the $450 Billion Trade in Fake Fashion

02 March 2017

02.03.17 - BoF lifts the lid on the shadowy market in fake fashion and what the UK's special anti-counterfeiting police unit — the only one of its kind in the world — is doing about it.

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Asbestos found in counterfeit cigarettes!

02 March 2017

02.03.17 - Police officers seized packets of cigarettes from a shop in the Eastwood area following a tip-off that counterfeit cigarettes were being sold to children.

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Met smashes counterfeit whisky scam after a tipple-off

01 March 2017

01.03.17 - Detectives are investigating a suspected counterfeit whisky operation which could have netted hundreds of thousands of pounds in illegal profits.

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Notts shopkeepers jailed for counterfeit cigarette offences

26 February 2017

26.02.17 - Hersh Kareen Hasson, 31 of St Anne's Close, Derby, and Shakawan Salah, 38 of Low Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, who jointly run Andrew's News and Booze on Lower Road, pleaded guilty to eight offences against the Trademark Act (1994) and four offences against the Consumer Protection Act (1987). Hasson received a 27-month sentence and Salah was handed a 30-month prison sentence.

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Toxic counterfeit vodka sold to undercover Blackpool Council Trading Standards officer

23 February 2017

23.02.17 - The first batch – 12 one-litre bottles of vodka, labelled as Glen's – contained methanol, a harmful chemical which if consumed can cause blindness, coma or death.

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Man charged in fake airbag investigation

17 February 2017

17.02.17 - Robert Czernik, aged 35, of Blackbird Close, Poole, Dorset was charged with selling goods likely to be mistaken for a registered trade mark (Trade Marks Act).

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