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Yesterday (21st May 2026) at Guildford Crown Court, final sentences were dished out to a criminal network that laundered a total of £331,223 stolen from victims, following a Trading Standards investigation. One individual at the centre of the operation was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
Read MoreA Middlesbrough man has today (15 May 2026) been sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to an eight-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to complete 140 hours of unpaid work after taking more than £16,000 from customers across the UK for doors and furniture that were never delivered.
Read MoreA woman has been jailed for running a Ponzi‑style holiday fraud in Portsmouth that left people almost £300,000 out of pocket.
Read MoreA man who made fake education and professional certificates has today (13 March 2026) been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at York Crown Court following an investigation by the National Trading Standards eCrime Team. His criminal operation, which ran for over a decade, led people around the world to secure skilled jobs they were not qualified for.
Read MoreToday (20 February 2026) at York Crown Court, a man who ran a sham recruitment service that tricked jobseekers into paying for fake DBS and criminal record checks has been sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment for laundering the proceeds of the scam. He will serve 40% of the sentence in custody, with time already spent on remand counting towards that period. This follows an investigation by the National Trading Standards eCrime Team.
Read MoreTwo men from Weston-super-Mare have been convicted of trading in counterfeit goods following a lengthy investigation that uncovered more than 10,000 counterfeit items.
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