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Latest News - Markets & Car Boot Sales

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Glasgow mobsters target ice cream parlours to launder dirty cash

06 January 2016

06.01.16 - Police said around 1000 members of crime groups are currently working in rackets including drugs, prostitution, money laundering, tobacco smuggling, counterfeit goods and extortion, in the Glasgow area.

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Lincolnshire market trader must pay up almost £700,000 for selling fake goods

24 December 2015

24.12.15 - Iftakhar Ahmed, Asad Iftakhar and Hasan Iftakhar were handed prison sentences of two years and six months, 12 months and six months respectively.

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4 sentenced over “major operation” to sell counterfeit goods at Staffordshire markets

17 December 2015

17.12.15 - Staffordshire County Council's trading standards team led a regional investigation following an initial discovery of fake goods at a car boot sale in Lichfield. Further information led them to a secure storage unit in Birmingham in December 2013 where a £1.5m haul of counterfeit goods was found.

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Havering TS warn shoppers of unsafe online counterfeit bargains

12 December 2015

12.12.15 - Shoppers hunting for festive bargains have been warned to watch out for counterfeit goods, which could damage their health and even put lives at risk.

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Christmas shoppers warned after Border Force seize counterfeit goods

01 December 2015

01.12.15 - Border Force officers are warning festive shoppers against buying counterfeit goods this Christmas after seizing thousands of fakes at the UK's ports, airports and postal hubs.

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Good advice from Which? when buying on-line

26 November 2015

26.11.15 - Which? is urging consumers to avoid fraudulent websites, as well as fake and counterfeit products, ahead of frenzied Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales shopping.

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Counterfeit goods seized at Bescot Market, Walsall

24 November 2015

24.11.15 - Walsall Council trading standards officers and Walsall Police swooped to seize the equivalent of a 20 foot container full of fake goods from four stalls at Bescot market during a visit on Sunday, November 15.

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Trader prosecuted for selling counterfeit goods at car boot sale

05 November 2015

04.11.15 - Dorset County Council's trading standards officers seized 215 items from the trader at the sale held at Farmer Palmer's Farm Park, near Wareham.

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Suspected counterfeit goods seized at Nottingham Goose Fair

01 October 2015

01.10.15 - Fifty boxes of Dr Dre headphones and earphones, 10 cuddly toy tigers, 10 sets of plastic flashing teeth and 10 air horns have been taken away by officials to be examined.

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Annual IP crime report: 2014 to 2015

24 September 2015

24.09.15 - The report highlights the current and emerging threats surrounding counterfeiting and piracy, including those conducted via the internet.

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