Belfast police raid counterfeiting operation

Police in the North have seized counterfeit goods for the third time this week.

Police in the North have seized counterfeit goods for the third time this week.

Officers from the Serious Crime Squad led a raid on a house in the Dundonald area of Belfast this morning and found counterfeit CDs and equipment for copying CDs. They estimated the value of the goods at £30,000 sterling.

On Tuesday, police seized goods including CDs, DVDs and clothes from stall-holders at the Old Lammas Fair in Ballycastle, Co Antrim.

The day before they intercepted a consignment of similar goods they believed were going to the fair at Belfast Harbour. The collective value of the two seizures is estimated at £260,000.

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Police say republican and loyalist paramilitaries are involved in the counterfeiting operations and that prosecutions will follow.