• Three men jailed for 10 years in fake DVD operation

    Three men have been jailed for 10 years and seven months for selling fake DVDs following a successful investigation by Suffolk Trading Standards and FACT.

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    Post Office manager jailed over fake DVD business

    A local Post Office manager has been jailed for 25 months after being convicted of selling over 7,000 counterfeit DVDs at the Inner London Crown Court.

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    Man jailed for selling fake DVDs and CDs

    A Bovingdon market trader has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for selling fake DVDs and CDs, following a successful investigation by FACT.

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    Man who sold £100k fake DVDs online sentenced to two years

    A man who sold over £100k of counterfeit DVDs online has been sentenced to two years imprisonment following a joint operation by FACT and PIPCU.

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  • £100k DVD con man is found guilty

    A con man who was identified following a joint FACT and Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) investigation into the sale counterfeit DVD box sets has today (8 Jan) been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court.

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  • Online seller of counterfeit DVDs imported from China jailed for two years

    A Northamptonshire man has been given a two-year prison sentence for breaching trade mark laws after selling counterfeit DVDs he imported from China following a join investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Northamptonshire County Council's Trading Standards.

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  • Fraudster jailed for selling counterfeit DVDs online

    A copyright fraudster who turned over £600,000 from selling counterfeit DVDs online has been jailed for three years today at a trial at Guildford Crown Court. Trevor Pegg, 61, of [...]

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    £16,000 worth of counterfeit DVDs seized by police in Inverness

    Counterfeit DVDs worth £16,000 have been seized by police in Inverness. The intelligence-led operation with officers from the community investigation unit of Police Scotland’s Highland and Islands Division seized over 800 fake copyright DVDs [...]

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  • Counterfeit DVDs seized in joint operation between Police Scotland and FACT

    A joint operation, led by officers from Police Scotland and involving officers from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), has resulted in the seizure of thousands of counterfeit DVDs in [...]

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  • Fake DVD haul worth £439,000 seized in Glasgow’s Barras market police raid

    A haul of counterfeit DVDs worth £439,000 have been seized after a police raid at Glasgow’s Barras market. Officers from Police Scotland, Glasgow Trading Standards and the Federation Against Copyright [...]

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  • EIGHT MONTH JAIL SENTENCE AND £71,000 CONFISCATION FOR COUNTERFEITER

    A man from Wales has been jailed for eight months and ordered to hand over £71,000 he made from counterfeiting DVDs sold via the internet. Nigel Thomas appeared at Swansea [...]

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  • £213,000 in criminal assets seized from counterfeiter

    Criminal assets worth £213,166.09 have been taken during a Proceeds of Crime confiscation proceeding after a large-scale, international counterfeiting operation was uncovered. Luton Crown Court on 13 January took the [...]

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