Counterfeit and Forgery

A suspected hacker has been arrested for allegedly accessing world-famous recording artists’ websites and cloud-based accounts illegally, stealing unreleased songs, and selling the stolen music in exchange for cryptocurrency.

In a coordinated day of action targeting individuals involved with streaming illegally obtained music, the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) executed searches of a property in North London and a property in Ipswich. In Ipswich, a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of copyright and computer misuse act offences.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1272/city_of_london_police__manhattan_d_a__s_office_ar

Consumer watchdog Which? analysed almost 250,000 reviews for the top 10 ranked hotels in 10 popular tourist destinations around the world

A major counterfeiting operation has been disrupted after clothing and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were seized in a raid on a Birmingham factory.

https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/469/counterfeit_goods_seized_in_birmingham_factory_raid

Anonymous tip-offs were made before the shop was raided

An industry-funded fraud squad has dismantled double the number of criminal gangs in first half of 2019 than it did in the same period last year.

A Leamington Spa trader who sold fake and electrically unsafe products online has been handed a suspended jail sentence.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/samsung-counterfeit-items-leamington-spa-16643134?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

When Trading Standards officers searched a Leamington businessman’s premises after making a test purchase, they found more than 1300 counterfeit items among his stock.

https://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/crime/leamington-businessman-had-more-than-1-000-counterfeit-goods-among-his-stock-1-9000432

Thousands of packs of suspected ‘illegal’ cigarettes and tobacco, worth more than £30,000, has been seized from shops in Erdington.

Two stallholders at Denaby market, Doncaster have collectively been ordered to pay more than £2,300 and do unpaid work for selling counterfeit goods.

An Atherstone shop worker who was caught selling illegal cigarettes has been jailed and could now face deportation.