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According to the Wales247 website, a town centre retailer in Merthyr Tydfil has been fined £4,000 for selling fake designer label clothes.

Hardial Singh, Company Director of Pure Image, pleaded guilty to four charges under the Trademarks Act 1994 relating to the sale and possession for sale of counterfeit items.

The Stoke Sentinel website reports that an account manager at an employment agency stole more than £13,000 from his employer.

And, whilst James Pemberton was being investigated for that offence, he also stole over £9,000 from a family-owned car garage business.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that a passenger reservations worker for Irish Ferries stole more than £9,000 from her employer by faking refund payments to customers.

Rachel Ward, who issued bogus ‘refunds’ and transferred the money into her own bank accounts, tried to blame blackmailers for her dishonesty.

According to Mail Online, a Chinese-run website is selling counterfeit designer goods so close to the real thing that only a microscope could reveal they were fakes.

High-quality copies of clothes, bags and shoes from luxury labels including Chanel and Hermes are being sold for less than one per cent of the genuine products’ retail prices.

The Convenience Store website reports that a London-based Nisa store has invested in smart technology to tackle shoplifting and has stopped 15 thieves in two weeks.
Once connected to existing cameras through the internet, Artificial Intelligence (AI) software monitors all the cameras for shoplifters.

The Wales Online website reports that a crime gang recruited teenage girls around the UK in a £500,000 shoplifting scam.

Gang members, including ringleader Isaiah Olugosi, recruited, trained and transported the youngsters to commit refund fraud in high street stores across the country.