On Friday 19 November 2015, following reconnaissances made by TRAP partners Surelock and assisted by Camden Trading Standards, a major anti-counterfeit operation on three targeted retail stores in Camden High Street was carried out. More than 4,000 music branded teeshirts & sweatshirts were seized including One Direction, 5 SOS, Motorhead, Arctic Monkeys, Black Sabbath, Led…

TRAP alongside Westminster Trading Standards and a large Police support team have completed two days of intensive anti-counterfeit action, in and around London’s Leicester Square. Following painstaking reconnaissance and test purchasing, TRAP raided 9 retail outlets resulting in thousands of items of a counterfeit nature being seized.

The Plymouth Herald reports that 3 people have appeared in court accused of printing up and selling dodgy One Direction clothing. Kenneth Colley, aged 42, Jason Ross, aged 45 and Anna Strzelecka, aged 39, all stand jointly charged of selling clothing between July 1 2009 and July 12, 2012 which bore trademarked images and of…

Following a reconnaissance carried out by Surelock on behalf of TRAP in October 2014 at Old Spitalfields Market, Commercial Street, London E1, a stall holder Rajesh Joshi, was identified selling counterfeit One Direction, The Beatles and Ramones t-shirts, which were seized by Tower Hamlets Trading Standards and Joshi was prosecuted. On 22 October 2015 Joshi…