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 [...]
£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 [...]
