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28th June 2010

COUNTERFEITERS JAILED FOR £1m INTERNATIONAL FAKE DVD OPERATION

A PAIR of counterfeiters who ran a £1 million pound illegal DVD copying operation in Milton Keynes have been jailed for a total of more than three years.

Rosalba Stocec-Bot, a 28-year-old Romanian national, and Achilles Christian Ekedi-Tanenang, aged 36, from Cameroon, had both pleaded guilty to a 10 count indictment of Counterfeiting and Money Laundering, in a previous hearing at Luton Crown Court on June 3rd.

They appeared for sentence at Luton Crown Court on Friday June 25th and Stotec-Bec and Ekendi-Tanenang received 30 months and 15 months respectively.

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23rd June 2010

THREE ARRESTED IN RAIDS ON COUNTERFEITING CRIMINAL NETWWORK

Police and FACT raids have uncovered an organised criminal gang operating an illegal DVD making factory across South East England.

In operations on Monday and Tuesday three men were arrested on suspicion of fraud by false representation and for copyright theft.

On Monday (June 21st) City of London Police detectives, working with FACT, arrested a 34 year-old man at a printing premises in South London and seized around 900,000 printed inlays and thousands of counterfeit DVDs.

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