The City of London’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), along with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), co-ordinated a series of raids across the country – arresting six people and seizing £12,000 in cash.
Officers seized four tonnes of the fake jerseys in raids in Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and Northampton.
Four premises were raided in Leeds, with officers seizing a large quantity of fake England shirts, Fifa World Cup badges and £2,000 in cash. While in Sheffield, officers seized fakes from a storage facility and £10,000 in cash from a residential premises.
Together the Leeds and Sheffield merchandise was estimated by police to be valued at £250,000.
Similarly, raids were carried out in Bristol and Northampton, with a further £250,000 of counterfeit shirts seized.
