Login£1.6m POCA order for Operation Gleam
Tooth-whitening fraudsters ordered to pay back £1.6m in Proceeds of Crime Act hearing
Posted 25 June 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Crime|Wales
ANALYSIS: Operation Gleam began with unsafe tooth-whitening products at the Royal Welsh Show and grew into a multi-agency fraud investigation exposing eight years of phoenix companies, misleading sales and dangerous peroxide levels. Powys Trading Standards’ £1.6m POCA order showed how persistence, regional cooperation and financial investigation can turn a local enquiry into serious enforcement.
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Powys County Council Trading Standards began an investigation into the Hargreaves family - Matthew (47) and his parents John (71) and Jean (72) - in 2013 when they were found to be selling tooth-whitening products at the Royal Welsh Show containing more than 110 times the legal limit of hydrogen peroxide. Their advertising materials also made misl...
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