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    FACT and Police Scotland crack down on UK wide illegal TV stream scam

    Officers from FACT and Police Scotland executed two search warrants at addresses in Glasgow as part of an ongoing investigation into the sale of illegal TV boxes to hundreds of licensed premises.

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    Multi Agency Operation Against Pirated TV Set Top Boxes Leads to Six Arrests

    FACT was involved in a day of action to disrupt the sales of TV boxes which have been illegally modified to stream pirated movies and sports.

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    Man jailed for more than two and half years for selling illegal TV set-top boxes

    A man has been jailed for over two years after FACT and Leicestershire Police discovered he was selling hundreds of illegal TV boxes online.

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  • Set-top boxes seized during Walsall fraud raid

    Dozens of electronic items including suspected illegal set-top boxes have been seized from a Walsall flat during a warrant this morning (30 June). The items were located after a joint [...]

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  • HMRC, Police Scotland and FACT undertake joint operation

    Five properties in The Lothians and Fife, the registered addresses for around 1,500 companies, were searched yesterday morning by officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The searches are part [...]

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    Man arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal broadcasts of Premier League matches

    The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) arrested a Nottingham man this morning on suspicion of selling devices that allow pubs to illegally broadcast Premier League football matches on a [...]

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    Two arrested in eBay counterfeit TV Box-set clampdown

    Two people, a man aged 30 years and a woman aged 32 years, have been arrested in Cheltenham in a targeted operation against sellers of counterfeit goods on eBay. Gloucestershire [...]

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