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Counterfeit goods seized during joint operation at popular Perthshire market

21 September 2019

Fake tracksuits, trainers, perfume and jewellery were claimed by Perth and Kinross Council's Trading Standards at the Errol Sunday Market on August 18 in a joint operation with Police Scotland and the market organisers Morris Leslie.

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Police raid North Staffordshire house and find six-thousand counterfeit goods in the shed

13 September 2019

Fraudster Steven Bowler has been rumbled after selling more than 11,500 pieces of counterfeit golfing equipment on eBay - worth a total of £175,000.

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Edgbaston welcomes the ACG IP Roadshow

06 September 2019

The Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) travelled to Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday to host its fourth Intellectual Property (IP) Roadshow of the year.

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Hayes pre-clearance centre welcomes ACG

03 September 2019

More than 50 Border Force and HMRC officers from the new Hayes pre-clearance centre visited the training event of ACG members exhibiting genuine and fake goods.

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ACG work in partnership with Heathrow Border Force to detain counterfeits

02 September 2019

Border Force officers at Heathrow targeted freight cargo imports last week and were joined by ACG and brand members last Friday to verify suspected counterfeit goods and collect invaluable intelligence.

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Multi-agency raid in Birmingham disrupts manufacture of counterfeit products

28 August 2019

Tens of thousands of illegally manufactured branded labels and hundreds of finished garments were seized in a raid yesterday at a factory in Handsworth, Birmingham.

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Leamington trader sold dangerous counterfeit Samsung products online

25 August 2019

Sandhu, sole director of Partek Trade Ltd was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for two years, ordered to do 280 hours of unpaid work and has been disqualified from acting as a company director or otherwise in the management of a company for five years.

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ACG Member - Rubie's counterfeit success rate continues

22 August 2019

The latest counterfeit conviction to have taken place after a trading standards alert from costume company Rubie's has resulted in a £10,000 fine for the illegal trader.

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Award honours West Yorkshire Trading Standards

21 August 2019

The extraordinary commitment by the West Yorkshire Trading Standards team was marked yesterday with the presentation of an ACG Highly Commended Award for Excellence in Anti-Counterfeiting Enforcement.

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Counterfeit goods postmaster ordered to pay back £750,000 or face five more years in prison

21 August 2019

The court accepted that in total, the business had generated £1.75 million in illegal turnover.

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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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