DODGY DVDs have been seized following a raid in the Smith’s
Wood area.
Yesterday (Monday), police and trading standard officers
found that a woman was running a counterfeit operation from her own home.
Officers had visited the address after becoming suspicious
of a Facebook page, which was offering cheap movies for sale.
At the home they found three laptops and a PC which are
suspected to contain hundreds of films illegally downloaded from the internet.
There was also a large number of blank discs, ready to be
burned and sold on at the rock bottom prices.
All these items have been seized by trading standards and
the woman will be questioned at a later stage.
Councillor Diana Holl-Allen, cabinet member for community
cohesion and partnerships, said: “It may be easy to think that selling
counterfeit goods is a victimless crime that only affects big global companies.
“This is not the case. Local jobs and businesses rely on
selling genuine products.”
Selling counterfeit goods is a crime that can be punished
with a crime, community order or, in the most serious cases, a prison sentence.
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