Fake football shirts worth £5.5m seized in one of UK’s biggest counterfeiting raids

More than 158,000 items of fake kit seized featuring World Cup semi-finalists England, France and Spain More than 158,000 fake football strips have been seized in an operation targeting World Cup counterfeit kit and blocking criminals from trying to “cash in on fan demand”. Edinburgh’s trading standards team confiscated 9 tonnes of Scotland, England and other nations’ fake kits, worth an estimated £5.5m. Continue reading...