£1.5m Counterfeit Goods Seized

Saturday, 26th March 2022 at 3:20pm

The Birmingham Mail website reports that Trading Standards officers uncovered a huge £1.5million haul of fake clothes and shoes following a probe into gangsters in Walsall.

In all, around 7,500 items were seized as part of ‘Operation Flash’, a national project probing the use of self-storage units to hide counterfeit products.

A spokesman said, “While some items may not be dangerous, they will not be of the quality of the brands who are, frankly, being ripped off, and this also impacts on our local businesses selling genuine branded products of good quality.”

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