Latest FACT news and perspectives

The UK’s expanded sanctions regime against Iran, effective from 29 September 2026, introduces significant new financial, trade and transport restrictions across sectors including energy, oil and petroleum products, petrochemicals, maritime [...]

Every day, high-value medicines move through increasingly complex global supply chains. Before reaching patients, pharmaceutical products may pass through manufacturers, wholesalers, logistics providers, distribution centres, pharmacies and hospitals across multiple [...]

Independent assessors award FACT enhanced ‘Plus’ status under Cyber Essentials scheme We’re pleased to announce that FACT has successfully renewed its Cyber Essentials Plus certification, continuing our annual independent assessment [...]

FACT-supported activity contributes to enforcement outcomes involving around £1.4 million in illegal streaming revenue, more than £29,000 in pub penalties and a six-and-a-half-year sentence. This summer saw a series of [...]

New research from BeStreamWise, the cross-industry consumer campaign against illegal streaming, has revealed that illegal streaming is costing the UK economy at least £1.35 billion in lost revenue every year. [...]

South Africa’s recent anti-immigrant protests have targeted nationals of other African countries living there. For many, the unrest came as little surprise, with similar demonstrations dating back to 2008. Several [...]

Few pharmaceutical products have entered mainstream public consciousness as quickly as GLP-1. Originally associated primarily with diabetes treatment, medicines such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have become globally recognised through [...]

For many years, pharmaceutical crime has often been presented in terms of a relatively simple distinction: legitimate medicines are supplied through regulated channels, while falsified and illicit medicines circulate outside [...]

A man has been jailed after making almost £1 million through the sale of illegal IPTV services. Milan Ibrahim, aged 68, of Chorley, has today (27th August) been sentenced to 6.5 [...]

A Prescot man has been handed a 32-month sentence suspended for three years for running Ozzy Streams, an illegal IPTV service offering unauthorised access to content belonging to Sky, TNT [...]

On Monday, 10 August 2026, Mr. Malcolm Rhead the Licensee of the Sneyd Arms in Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, was found guilty in his absence of two offences relating to the [...]

Ms. Joanne Elizabeth Hughes, the Licensee of the Rollers Arms in Wrexham, North East Wales, was found guilty in her absence of three offences in relation to the dishonest broadcast [...]