£142,000 confiscated from convicted counterfeiter
Read More →A major counterfeiter from south east London has had assets totalling £142,000 confiscated, having already been jailed for related criminal activity. Neil Anthony Norton, 42, from Bromley was sentenced to [...]
Eighteen years for piracy crime business ringleaders
Read More →Today (28th July 2009) four members of a criminal network involved in a multi-million pound film piracy ‘industry’ have been jailed for a total of eighteen years at Southwark Crown [...]
Crackdown Nets 1,218 Fake DVDs in Whitechapel
Read More →A crackdown on illegal DVD sellers in Whitechapel netted 1,218 pirate DVDs including 311 obscene pornographic films. Eight DVD sellers were arrested in the street raids on Thursday (12 July) [...]
Counterfeit goods website taken down | Four arrested | Joint operation across Herts, Beds and Bucks
Read More →An intelligence led operation targeting a website (www.xv99.com) that was selling counterfeit films, TV programmes, games, music and software by post in the UK has resulted in raids on six [...]
Major piracy network taken down
Read More →L-R: Rafi Asghar-Sheikh, Sami Asghar- Sheikh, Xin Li, also known as Jerry Li Yesterday (8 July) members of a criminal network involved in a multi-million pound [...]
FACT win BVA industry initiative of the year award
Read More →For their relentless campaign against piracy, FACT won the BVA’s Award for Industry Initiative of the Year which acknowledged their achievements well ahead of the anticipated two year goal they [...]
Defendants convicted – The criminal prosecution of The Pirate Bay
Read More →Stockholm, Sweden: 17.4.2009. A court in Stockholm today convicted the four defendants of copyright offences in ‘The Pirate Bay Trial’ and sentenced each to one year’s imprisonment. Substantial damages were [...]
UK’s largest illegal DVD factory shut | Thousands of DVDs and hundreds of DVD burners seized
Read More →Raids in London have led to the closure of a sophisticated large scale printing operation, printing covers for counterfeit DVDs, and the UK’s largest ever illegal DVD manufacturing facility in [...]
Illegal DVD factory uncovered in London
Read More →Officers from the Metropolitan Police Obscene Publications Unit have arrested two men and seized over 50,000 counterfeit DVDs following a joint operation with City of London Police, FACT (Federation Against [...]
Trading standards seize £100,000 of pirate DVDs.
Read More →A joint raid by Birmingham Trading Standards, West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) on an apartment has netted an estimated 40,000 pirate DVDs. The raid on [...]
16 months for Manchester man convicted of counterfeiting DVDs
Read More →Steven Healey rented a house to carry out his counterfeit films, music and games enterprise. The 42-year-old was caught when a gas engineer sent around by the landlord became suspicions [...]
Thousands of DVDs and 150 DVD burners seized following separate police raids in South East London
Read More →30,000 Counterfeit DVDs, with a street value of over £90,000, and 150 DVD burners have been seized by the Metropolitan Police following separate Police raids in Lewisham. Seven people were [...]
