{"id":47857,"date":"2014-09-23T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bba9e926e513a5bcb6fc4e17c744822f"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:21:16","slug":"news-story-fake-toys-seized-by-border-force-at-stansted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47857","title":{"rendered":"News story: Fake toys seized by Border Force at Stansted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The fake building blocks, which were destined for the streets of the UK, arrived in Stansted last month.<\/p>\n<p>Officers discovered 2,315 figures and assorted kits, many of which related to DC Comics and Marvel characters like Iron Man, Batman and Spiderman.<\/p>\n<p>The goods, which had been listed as \u201cplastic blocks for decoration\u201d, had been sent to the UK from China in four separate packages with a declared value of just $365.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was launched by Border Force and LEGO has now confirmed that all the goods, which will now be destroyed, are breaches of their copyright.<\/p>\n<p>As the rights holders, the company can now decide whether or not they wish to prosecute the importer privately.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure follows a discovery last month of nearly 500 items of counterfeit Disney products carrying images of characters from the film \u201cFrozen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Holliday, Border Force Regional Director, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although the goods were not branded it was quite clear that these were poor imitations of genuine products, a suspicion that was quickly confirmed by the company\u2019s legal department.<\/p>\n<p>Smugglers are not concerned with the commodities that they deal in, only what will make them a profit.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge for Border Force is to stay one step ahead of the smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>We are determined to crack down on this crime and we have officers working 24 hours a day at ports, airports and mail sorting centres identifying counterfeit goods before they reach the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Members of the public can help to disrupt this trade by ensuring they only buy from genuine retailers and our advice, as always, is if a price appears too good to be true, it probably is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stansted\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/30936\/seized_stansted_sept14.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Anyone who has been sold counterfeit goods or knows someone who is selling them should contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Force officers at Stansted Airport have seized thousands of imitation construction brick kits worth more than \u00a318,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}