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Almost 400,000 counterfeit children’s Christmas toys and decorations valued at two million euros has been seized here over the last 15 days, Italian police have said. The items arrived in Italy via three import businesses registered to three Chinese nationals…
Amazingly three hundred corner stores have been offered black-market tobacco to sell, research has revealed….
Phoney internet pharmacies are driving the massive counterfeit medicine market to consumers worldwide, according to a recent report released today by Cambridge Consultants. The full report can be downloaded at http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/downloads/whitepapers/Authentication%20Whitepaper.pdf
Thousands of watches, CDs and DVDs were crushed by a steamroller at Bern airport on Thursday as part of a Swiss campaign against counterfeit goods.
IMPACT, the World Customs Organisation (WCO), the Permanent Forum of International Pharmaceutical Crime (PFIPC) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies Working Group of Enforcement Officers (HMA WGEO) (Global)…
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The European Commission has announced a multi-year agreement with Imperial Tobacco Limited to work together in tackling the illicit trade in tobacco products.
Dodgy dealers are cleaning up in an £11billion industry fuelled by thrifty consumers who want the designer label more than quality goods…
A new report for the British Journal of Criminology, co-written by a Home Office Advisor, claims not and that counterfeiting could actually be beneficial to top designer labels by promoting their brands. This view seems slightly irresponsible taking the consequences of counterfeiting (lost tax revenue, funding of organised crime etc) into consideration and is not supported by the leading designer brands; as reported on www.styleite.com, a spokesman for Louis Vuitton said: ‘The sale of counterfeit goods is a serious offence whose revenue funds criminal organisations at the expense of consumers, companies and governments.’
The report concludes that it should be the responsibility of industry rather than police to fight the counterfeiters and that resources should be concentrated on other more dangerous counterfeits such as medicines and aircraft parts.
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has kicked off a joint initiative with Trading Standards in various locations across the UK to launch a summer education campaign against unlicensed software.
It was reported today that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) has been used over 400 times in the past two years by councils across the Black Country. RIPA was introduced to regulate investigations by public bodies (including covert surveillance, the use of Covert Human Intelligence Sources, interception of communications and the use of communications data); it is used by councils to investigate offences such as rogue trading, benefit cheating and flytipping. ABM’s software for managing covert operations and investigations is fully compliant with RIPA legislation. The full article can be read here.
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