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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Paul Britton

580 tonnes of counterfeit goods seized from Cheetham Hill shipping containers in 'record UK haul' worth £87m

More than 500 tonnes of counterfeit goods has been seized by police from shipping containers at a storage unit in Cheetham Hill in what's being described as a 'record haul in UK history'.

Greater Manchester Police said the mammoth seizure - collectively worth an estimated £87m - was also the largest single seizure in Europe in almost two decades.

Teams of officers spent 14 days breaking into 206 shipping containers from the unit, which was said by the force to be 'tucked away on the outskirts of Cheetham Hill'.

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