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By: Jeff James
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Published: Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The shirts, along with other counterfeit items such as England flags and towels, were confiscated by West Yorkshire Trading Standards in a raid on a wholesaler in Bradford at the end of June. Officers tracked them down after spotting fakes with Umbro and England logos in a shop in Leeds.
Both the shop and the wholesaler involved have been given an official warning by Trading Standards, as well as losing the dodgy goods they had hoped to make a packet on.
"The goods have been imported from Thailand and were of very poor quality," says Paul Smith, Principal Trading Standards Officer for West Yorkshire. "We seized the merchandise as part of our Operation Round-up, which aims to protect consumers from being ripped off by counterfeiters."
Says Bryan Lewin, TSI's spokesman on counterfeiting: "Criminals are constantly trying to cash in on the good name of trademark goods and capitalise whenever they can on current events, such as the World Cup.
"It's important that we clamp down on this whenever possible - for the sake of consumers, as well as to protect the trademarks and logos that companies invest in to make sure their customers get quality goods."
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