Around £500,000 worth of fake football shirts were discovered and confiscated by police
Four tonnes of fake football shirts have been seized by police during raids ahead of the World Cup opening ceremony today - worth a whopping £500,000. Cops raided lock ups and houses across the country in a crackdown on counterfeit goods, which they said are linked to organised criminal groups.
Detective Sergeant Matthew Hussey said:"We regularly see links between the counterfeit goods trade and organised criminal groups. Counterfeiting is one of the primary methods used by these groups to make money, and enables them to fund serious offences such as drug trafficking and money laundering. Searches of addresses in Bristol and Northampton yielded £250,000 of fake football shirts. Meanwhile, a large quantity of counterfeit England shirts, FIFA World Cup badges and £2,000 in cash were found across four premises in Leeds, West York.
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