Shop disguised as fast-food takeaway raided by police as four arrested

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Police raided a Counterfeit Street shop 'masquerading' as a fast-food takeaway. Four men were arrested after a counterfeit shop, disguised as a takeaway, was busted by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).

The men were 'on their lunch break' yesterday (June 9) when they were disturbed by the raid, said the force. Despite working in what appeared to be a takeaway in Bury New Road, Cheetham Hill, the men weren’t eating food made in their own business and had instead gone to another takeaway. "Besides being extremely unhygienic, the business wasn’t a fully functioning takeaway: it was a front for yet another counterfeit goods store," explained GMP. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link "Above the takeaway, officers discovered a large counterfeit shop and seized numerous items including clothes, shoes, perfumes, and jewellery as well as a quantity of cash.

The pre-planned warrant was executed after intelligence was gathered that suggested the innocuous takeaway was in fact linked to the counterfeit goods trade as well as more serious criminality," said a spokesperson for GMP.

The four men, aged 43, 42, and two aged 32, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit trademark offences and were taken into police custody for questioning.