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Over 4,000 COUNTERFEIT items worth more than £130,000 seized in raids in Wales over Christmas

14 January 2018

Welsh councils' trading standards teams carried out 39 raids and netted 4,391 items believed to be fake, including toys, clothes, footwear and cosmetics.

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Sentenced: gang flooding streets with potentially deadly counterfeit cigarettes

27 December 2017

A former Freeman Street shop owner has been convicted of trading in illegal cigarettes including knock off Mayfair and Richmond brands.

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Christmas crackdown on '100 traders selling fake goods'

26 December 2017

Graham Mogg, of the UK Anti-Counterfeiting Group, said officers netted more than 120,000 fake products last Christmas, "a proportion of which was heading for Welsh consumers".

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Heading for the Boxing Day sales? Know your rights...

26 December 2017

If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably fake. That's the advice of Cumbria Trading Standards Service, which says there are four key indicators of counterfeit goods and they're warning sales shoppers to be savvy about their spending. While cheap prices are attractive, it's the first sign of a fake and potentially dangerous product.

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'Counterfeit Street': The trail of misery behind the designer knock-off you are getting for Christmas

23 December 2017

How buying fake designer goods can help modern slavery and gangsters whose other activities involve ‘a pump action shotgun, dum-dum bullets and amphetamines'

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Fake goods worth £3m seized during raids in Strangeways

18 December 2017

Fleeing traders closed electronic shutters - trapping customers inside shops - in a failed bid to thwart investigators as they swooped on eleven shops in the Strangeways area of the city

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ACG present evidence at All Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group meeting

15 December 2017

The All-Party Parliamentary Intellectual Property Group held an hour-long evidence session on Wednesday 13 December and invited ACG, as a leading authority on the worldwide trade in fakes and representing around 3,000 brands (trade marks) globally, to provide views on the priorities for protecting UK IP rights in the years ahead.

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Christmas shoppers in West Dunbartonshire warned over buying counterfeit gifts

14 December 2017

As more and more Christmas shopping is done online, shoppers are being warned to make sure online sites are legitimate...

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ACG visit Westminster to focus on counterfeits

14 December 2017

Alison Statham, ACG Director General visited Westminster on Tuesday 12 December to meet the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Home Electrical Safety and discuss the issues of counterfeit electrical goods.

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Four co-conspirators in court charged with selling fake toys and car badges in Cornwall

14 December 2017

All four face the same two charges - one of conspiring to sell counterfeit car badges and toys, and another of conspiring to acquire, use or possess the proceeds of the sales of these goods.

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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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