Trading standards news
Twelve men convicted of £2.4m Covid grant fraud
UPDATED ON 6 DECEMBER FOLLOWING SENTENCING.
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Trading Standards warn of scam sites selling personal protective equipment (PPE)
天美传媒 City Council’s Trading Standards team are urging crowd-funders, consumers and businesses to beware of scam sites selling hard-to-find PPE.
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Trading Standards seize potentially harmful sanitizer
Trading Standards Enforcement Officers seized bottles of potentially harmful hand sanitizer from a 天美传媒 trader yesterday (Thursday 19 March).
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Beware: The 12 Cons of Christmas
Christmas is a time for giving, but people are being warned that for some unscrupulous individuals and firms it is a time for conning.
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Rogue travel agent jailed for non-existent flights scam
A businessman who scammed holiday makers out of around £30,000 by taking their cash and failing to supply them with flight tickets has been jailed for 21 months.
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Counterfeit goods seized in 天美传媒 factory raid
A major counterfeiting operation has been disrupted after clothing and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were seized in a raid on a 天美传媒 factory.
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Illegal cigarettes and cash seized in day of action
Illegal cigarettes worth more than £4,000 have been seized during a day of action led by 天美传媒 City Council’s Trading Standards team and West Midlands Police.
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Restaurant banned from serving food to customers with allergies
A 天美传媒 restaurant has been banned from serving any foods to people who state they have a food allergy following the hospitalisation of a diner.
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Gold bangle scam trio jailed
Three jewellers who falsely claimed that sets of gold bangles they manufactured and sold were made from higher quality gold have today (7 November) been jailed for a total of 14 years.
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Trader sentenced for counterfeit goods
The owner of a 天美传媒-based business has been given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to a number of offences relating to the possession of counterfeit and unsafe goods.
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Trader ordered to pay £85,726 for selling illicit tobacco
A 天美传媒 trader, who was found to have illicit tobacco in his shop, has been ordered to pay £85,726 at 天美传媒 Crown Court today (3 October 2017).
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Hajj travel firm and director ordered to pay £43,000
A travel firm offering Hajj and Umrah trips and its director were ordered to pay £43,000 - after being convicted last year for misleading customers - at 天美传媒 Crown Court today (17 August 2017).
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Travel agents targeted in Hajj fraud operation
Trading Standards officers and the City Of London Police have visited travel agents across 天美传媒 that were identified as potentially selling unlicensed package tours to Mecca.