They held two men, aged 43 and 48, who are thought to be part of an international criminal network importing and selling a range of pirate luxury fashion goods for huge profits. Police believe the suspects were planning to sell the phoney items online …

Luxury items tend to be the most counterfeited products because they are more valuable, according to Randazzo. And with better counterfeiting methods, there is a greater challenge of detection as well as potential for even higher profits, she explained.

Now Atelier360 founders Veronique Lee and Liz Logie have partnered with Modavanti founder David Dietz and his team to curate a collection of luxury items chosen exclusively with the Modavanti customer in mind. The Atelier360 Collection on the site will …

They're always grateful for little luxuries to pass on to women and families who often flee home with nothing. Ultimately, though, hotels rather like you taking away items that have their logo on it. They evoke memories of your stay (hopefully positive …

He has created an entitlement culture where people receive free I-phones and use food stamps to buy luxury items. He keeps promising to weed out waste, fraud and abuse, but the entitlement culture grows and more people try to cheat the system. Wright …

As with Harley, many see Polaris and Arctic Cat's products as luxuries and their sales easily fluctuate with economic conditions. The off-road vehicle market, Polaris's core, dropped alongside motorcycles in Europe, but thanks to the company's product …

The far more likely type of fraud, though, is “existing account fraud” – when someone uses the credit information they've stolen to buy luxury items like Rolex watches and Gucci bags, which they then sell on the street for cash. “It's a lot simpler to …

If road repairs and rebuilding are a priority, they require planning and, most importantly, responsible funding. They cannot continue to be treated as some expensive luxury item that we will address at a later date or used as a campaign tool at …

Full of expensive luxury items and shiny surfaces, Selfridges is not an obvious location for extreme sports. But from tomorrow Londoners can experience what it might be like just a few metres away from the department store at a new indoor skatepark …