Current status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 25 July 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses were fined for selling counterfeit goods in the financial year 2024-25.
A search has been performed of the COPFS database for charges received by COPFS under a) the Trade Marks Act 1994, and b) a key word search for counterfeit or fake goods on charges under the Scottish Government Classification of "Fraud”.
During the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 there were no charges where a Fiscal Fine was offered by COPFS and accepted in relation to either individuals or companies.
The information is provided under the caveat that COPFS uses a live, operational database to manage the processing of reports submitted to Procurators Fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies throughout Scotland. It is designed to meet business needs in the processing of criminal cases, rather than for statistical analysis, and the information within it is structured accordingly.
The numbers were arrived at following an interrogation of relevant charges however a manual review was not conducted to confirm accuracy.