The dangers of fake medicines are due to be addressed in upcoming EU legislation but an international solution may be needed to solve a problem with global implications….
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Brands face threats from a variety of angles in today’s global market – particularly from counterfeiters and brand pirates
In today’s expanding global market, brands and products face an array of threats to their reputation and integrity at all stages in the supply chain. The dangers are as real for blue chip brands and the world’s biggest labels as they are for smaller companies.
Thieves target BT’s copper cables
Attacks on communications giant BT’s network of copper cables in Scotland rose by 9% last year, the company said. It said the attacks, which were mainly thefts, left vulnerable people isolated, limited access to the emergency services and cost the company millions of pounds every year.
FAST, Trading Standards test out new powers in Welsh raid
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) and Swansea Trading Standards have conducted their first anti-piracy raid using powers granted in 2007 under section 107A of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, which allows for surprise inspection of business premises on reasonable suspicion of copyright infringement…
15,000 people fight back against fraudsters…
Action Fraud, the UK’s first national fraud reporting centre, has had 15,000 web reports and calls in the last six months from members of the public who have joined the fight against fraud.
Obama strategy on counterfeits calls for industry transparency
Interestingly the Obama Administration has unveiled an ambitious set of measures to tackle the trade in counterfeit and pirated products, including pharmaceuticals, both domestically and internationally.
Counterfeiters to cost Europe ‘£200bn’
Counterfeiters will cost Europe one million jobs and more than £200 billion in “legitimate revenue” in the next five years, it was warned on 23rd June 2010…
International criminal markets have become major centres of power, UNODC report shows
A very informative and interesting report has been released…
The report released by UNODC shows how organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers.
The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment
No smoke without fire at Football club…
A FORMER football club boss was jailed for five and a half years today after Southampton customs officers made their largest seizure of imported cigarettes in the port.
The confiscation of more than 21m counterfeit Regal brand cigarettes is also believed to be one of the largest in the country.
Guy Simpson, 53, one time chief executive of Southern League Premier side Halesowen admitted smuggling.
The contraband was packed into two 40ft long containers that arrived on the Maersk Algol that had originally sailed from China and arrived in Southampton in December.
Though the manifest maintained they contained gym balls, they were found “full to the brim” with the cigarettes that had probably been illicitly manufactured in China, said prosecutor Tim Moores.
Judge Peter Ralls QC told Simpson from Heath Charnock, Lancashire he had played a pivotal role in the plot, which he had operated through his legitimate business front.
£4m in counterfeit goods seized at East Midlands Airport
The team at the airport received an award for their work from the Anti-Counterfeiting Group (new window). Among the items they seized were fake GHD-branded hair straighteners worth £117,884 and counterfeit products labeled as Nintendo valued at £155,135.
Full article: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/4-million-goods-seized
