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9th August 2010
MANCHESTER COUNTERFEIT FACTORY AND WAREHOUSE RAIDED
£65,000 OF COUNTERFEIT DISCS SEIZED
Raids last week in Manchester have closed down a pirate DVD factory and a major distribution warehouse, seizing discs with a total street value of over £65,000.
FACT and Manchester City Council Trading Standards officers raided a house in East Road, Longsight, M12 on Tuesday 3rd August after receiving intelligence that counterfeit goods were being stored there. The officers discovered a distribution centre for counterfeit goods, with piles of bogus music and film DVDs in three bedrooms.
They seized 17,000 discs of films such as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the Last Airbender and Despicable Me that have not yet gone on UK cinema release, as well as Inception which is currently showing in cinemas. None of these films are legally available yet on DVD
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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.
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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.
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