Guernsey man jailed for importing counterfeit DVDs
Read More →A 45 year old man has been sentenced for bringing more than 3,000 counterfeit and pirated DVDs into Guernsey. Matthew Le Page of St Sampson’s, appeared before the Magistrates Court [...]
12 month suspended sentence for North-East conterfeiter
Read More →On 7th December 2010 at Newcastle Combined Court Keith Gibson, age 50, of Houghton Le Spring was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months, £500 costs and an [...]
Counterfeit goods website shut down | Five arrested
Read More →A website which sold more than half a million pounds worth of counterfeit products has been shut down thanks to an 18 month covert operation – the biggest of its [...]
Manchester counterfeit factory and warehouse raided | £65,000 of counterfeit discs seized
Read More →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 [...]
Counterfeiters jailed for £1m international fake DVD operation
Read More →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, [...]
Three arrested as counterfeiting criminal network attacked
Read More →Police 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 [...]
Raid in Dorset yields counterfeit DVDs after internet investigation
Read More →On Friday 28th May officers from Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service & Dorset Police, acting on intelligence from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), seized thousands of counterfeit DVDs, [...]
Five year prison sentence for counterfeiter | House to be seized
Read More →A counterfeiter and handler of stolen goods who made over £56,000 while illegally pocketing benefits has been jailed for five years after a two-year-long investigation by West Yorkshire Police, Federation [...]
Two arrested in Gloucestershire | Drugs and counterfeiting equipment recovered
Read More →Following intelligence supplied by FACT, on 22nd February Gloucestershire Police and Trading Standards Officers accompanied by a FACT Investigator executed a warrant at a house in Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire. Computer [...]
Five arrests made following investigation into satellite card sharing website
Read More →On Wednesday 10/02/2010 officers from Hampshire Police and the Metropolitan Police acting on intelligence supplied by FACT executed four simultaneous search warrants at addresses in Middlesex and Hampshire as part [...]
Court takes tough action against Kent counterfeiter
Read More →Lawrence Barratt, a 32-year-old from Chatham, Kent, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on 8 December 2009 of bReaching the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 by manufacturing and [...]
£50,000 of counterfeit DVDs seized in Northern Ireland raids
Read More →A 36 year old man from Belfast has been charged with two offences related to counterfeiting after a proactive police operation yesterday. The man will appear at Newtownards Magistrates Court [...]
