A west Sussex man was prosecuted on Friday 9th January 2015 in Worthing Magistrates Court for the manufacture, possession and sale of counterfeit tee shirts bearing Led Zeppelin and ACDC amongst other trade marks. He pleaded guilty and received a fine of £2,500, costs of £1,324.76 and a £50 victim surcharge. Joseph Walker, 31, of…

BBC TV’s “Fake Britain” has featured TRAP partners Surelock, completing multi-agency raids on one of the largest retailers in Camden, London. The store was found to be selling £100,000’s worth of fake merchandise, including music artists’ clothing, mobile phone covers and cigarette lighters. See the clip here starting 35 minutes into the programme (Note that…

East Anglia Daily Times reports that a Suffolk internet fraudster who sold fake JLS, Justin Bieber, Olly Murs, and One Direction clothing was jailed for 12 months at Ipswich Crown Court and has been ordered to repay £60,000. The 53-year-old duped fans when selling the counterfeit branded merchandise he had printed himself through eBay. At…

After another successful operation involving surveillance and Trading Standards officers allied to TRAP, A couple from Surrey, England were ordered to pay a fine of £75,000. Reporting of the crime on TV this morning lead to outrage, when it was revealed that not only were musicians and popular brands targeted by the counterfeit scam, but…

Manchester Evening News reports that 37 people were arrested in a raid by Greater Manchester Police and Trading Standards officers targeting counterfeit goods. Read The Full Story

The fight against digital piracy and counterfeit goods was today (23 October 2014) boosted by £3 million of new government funding to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). Minister for Intellectual Property (IP), Baroness Neville-Rolfe announced the government’s funding commitment to the national crime unit at the Anti-Counterfeiting Group Conference in…

A company director from the south west of England was given eight months in prison, suspended for two years at Bristol Crown Court after previously pleaded guilty to 18 charges relating to possessing and selling counterfeit clothing, bags, headwear and toys, reports the Bristol Post. After months of surveillance and test purchases local trading standards…

Police and local trading standards officers carried out a raid in Camden on behalf of TRAP on Friday 10th October. The retail outlet on Camden High Street had been under surveillance for several months before the raid. During the raid, officers found secret store rooms and the basement to be full of counterfeit merchandise.