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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 [...]

On 30 June 2026, the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 came into force, introducing the most significant overhaul of the UK’s anti-money laundering regime since the regulations [...]

FACT’s interview and screening team brings a human dimension to due diligence that documents alone cannot provide. Our specialists conduct sensitive, structured interviews in settings ranging from asylum seeker screenings, [...]

Illegal streaming is increasingly complex. What may appear to be a simple offer of cheap access to television, film or live sport can involve networks of suppliers and resellers operating [...]

‘Dodgy box’ sellers in Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Laois and Limerick targeted by investigators Anti-piracy organisation FACT (The Federation Against Copyright Theft) and Sky have delivered legal warnings to [...]

London, 6 July 2026 Four men have been arrested by Merseyside Police after six search warrants were executed as part of a two-day operation targeting the suspected supply of illegal [...]

IN FOCUS: A case study from FACT’s corporate investigation team, showing how due diligence uncovered fraud where trust alone could not. Due diligence applies wherever money, assets, or reputation are [...]

Behind every illegal streaming service is a digital trail: devices, accounts, messages, payments and technical infrastructure. Digital forensics helps investigators recover, preserve and interpret that material, turning scattered information into [...]