Counterfeit and Forgery

Millions of cheap, illegal cigarettes flooding the UK market are costing the UK economy more than £2bn a year in unpaid duty.

An investigation has been launched into the supply of fake cigarettes in Handsworth as it was revealed £8,000 worth of smuggled and counterfeit goods were seized from the back of a white Transit.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fake-fags-investigation-handsworth-after-15763623

The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has ensured that £719 million of IP crime has been disrupted since its inception in 2013.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1184/pipcu_disrupts__719_million_worth_of_ip_crime

The counterfeit shoes were seized from Hanley's Sunday Market, Staffordshire Police said.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/police-seize-dozens-fake-trainers-2399561

A man from Northern Ireland has spoken out about receiving a “dangerous” motorbike helmet that he believed to be counterfeit.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1174/counterfeit_or_low_standards__victim_speaks_out_o

The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) is tackling video games piracy as criminals are selling modded consoles together with hundreds of unauthorised copies of video games.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1159/police_combat_video_game_piracy_ahead_of_christmas

There have been 39 cases involving counterfeit goods worth more than £116m in the last two years, according to new data from KPMG’s Fraud Barometer.

http://www.cityam.com/270021/consumers-warned-christmas-cons-fake-goods-cases-continue

Europol has revealed that its Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated Coalition (IPC3) has seized over 33,600 domain names distributing counterfeit and pirated items online, as part of its Operation In Our Sites.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1151/pipcu_takes_down_over_31_000_sites_in_internation

The case was brought by North Yorkshire County Council Trading Standards Service against an eBay seller from Mickle Trafford, near Chester, and Northern Sport Fishing, a manufacturing company from Bromsgrove, West Midlands

https://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/news/crime/sherburn-director-catches-fake-fishing-line-seller-1-9459652

Fake poppies were seized from a Black Country shop after it was claimed the owners were pocketing the cash raised.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/11/13/fake-poppies-seized-from-willenhall-shop/