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Latest News - Organised crime

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Marc Elliott from Rhondda sold counterfeit goods from a van outside his home

08 March 2016

08.03.16 - A shower gel from a fake Chanel gift set was found to contain ingredients not listed on the labelling, which would be harmful to someone allergic to them.

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Eight arrested in Manchester multi-agency operation

26 February 2016

26.02.16 - Trading Standards removed counterfeit goods worth estimated £2m from 11 premises.

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PRESS RELEASE: The manufacture of counterfeit jewellery, watches, handbags & luggage costs EU businesses €3.5 billion each year

11 February 2016

11.02.16 - Two new reports from the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the EU's largest intellectual property agency, reveal that 13.5% of sales of jewellery and watches and 12.7% of sales of handbags and luggage in the EU are lost due to counterfeiting...

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Counterfeit goods recovered from Facebook seller in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

10 February 2016

10.02.16 - After gathering evidence to show that fake and counterfeit goods were being sold from the property, officers worked together to execute their warrant.

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Google suspended more than 10,000 websites & 18,000 accounts for hawking counterfeit goods in 2015

22 January 2016

22.01.16 - More than 10,000 websites and 18,000 accounts were suspended for hawking counterfeit goods such as designer watch knock-offs, and Google blocked more than 12.5 million healthcare-related ads that included offering drugs that were approved for use or made claims that weren't properly supported.

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Gardai seize a shipping container full of counterfeit perfume

21 January 2016

21.01.16 - The fake perfume was packaged as legitimate high-end brands, but when tested it proved to be "generic Chinese toilet water in specialist packs".

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Cheetham Hill named the counterfeit capital of the UK

19 January 2016

19.01.16 - The trade in counterfeit brands continues to flourish there despite a series of high-profile raids which have seen fake goods worth millions seized by the authorities, according to the Intellectual Property Office.

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Counting the cost of counterfeit goods

19 January 2016

19.01.16 - The areas of Cheetham Hill and Strangeways in northern Manchester have been identified as having a significant influence on the criminal trade in counterfeit goods. These include goods such as clothing, luxury and electrical goods and counterfeit tobacco products. The report considers what action has been taken, the impact of this action and makes recommendations for future enforcement activity...

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Facebook fakes crackdown as online crooks selling counterfeit goods are targeted in nationwide blitz

17 January 2016

16.01.15 - Complaints about the sale of knock-off goods on the popular social networking site have soared 400 per cent since 2010.

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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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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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