A Black Friday crackdown by enforcement bodies and Meta has been launched to remove listings of potential counterfeit products from Instagram in the run-up to Black Friday. The listings cover counterfeit electrical goods – such as phone accessories and potentially dangerous chargers – as well as fake clothing and fashion accessories, jewellery, tobacco, car parts
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More than 1,000 illegal and counterfeit vapes, headphones, mobile phone accessories, and sunglasses were seized from four Hackney businesses by Council trading standards officers last month. The goods – with a total value of over £25,000 – were confiscated as part of a crackdown on illegal and counterfeit goods, which are of a poorer quality,
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A Southall business has been fined £8,000 after pleading guilty for intending to supply thousands of unlicensed erectile tablets and counterfeit goods, following a joint trading standards and police operation in April 2021. The company’s director, Mr Mano Singh Gaba, who owns Ajmeet UK Limited based at Charles House was also fined £2,777 when he
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Havering Council’s trading standards team helped to stop unsafe electrical goods being sold to the public in an investigation which saw a company director prosecuted. Earlier this month, Rizwan Nasir (52), of Havering, was given a three-month prison sentence for offences of failing to comply with the requirements of safety regulations at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
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A father and son have been prosecuted for selling £180,000 worth of dodgy cars. Janusz Borewicz, 54, and his son Krystian Borewicz, 36, were prosecuted for selling dozens of clocked cars including Audis, Volkswagens and Mercedes that had their mileage readings drastically reduced in 2015. Southwark Crown Court heard how the men had advertised 44
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Over one third of mobile chargers and leads used by students who attend an Enfield school failed safety tests in a recent trading standards testing event. Last month Enfield Trading Standards joined forces with leading charity Electrical Safety First at Chace Community School. The charity funded an opportunity for the students to bring in phone
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Enfield Trading Standards have won a significant court battle against a Director and his company whose imported toys were repeatedly found to breach safety regulations. Memon Imports Limited, and its former Director Mr Hamza Memon (33) of Wellesley Road, Ilford, were each found guilty of 12 offences under the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 and one
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LTS Week, Day 3 – Buying a used car An estimated fifth of used cars advertised through online platforms have unresolved or outstanding safety issues, warns London Trading Standards (LTS) in light of its recent research. The warning comes on the third day of London Trading Standards Week and forms part of its five-day campaign
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LTS Week, Day 1 – Survey results released on used tyre safety checks Almost three quarters (74%) of used tyres inspected by trading standards have failed to meet legal safety standards, says London Trading Standards (LTS). The warning comes on the first day of London Trading Standards Week, a five-day campaign that raises awareness of
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