BUSTED: UK company is raided for fake vinyl production

I'm not familiar with this incident, but it's possible that it involved an otherwise legitimate pressing plant that also engaged in piracy. This was actually not that uncommon during the LP era. See this as an example.
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@cleeds...thanks for the link!  That article is about fake "tapes".  I can do that from my kitchen table.  Counterfeiting LPs is a whole 'nother matter...

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@cleeds...thanks for the link! That article is about fake "tapes".

Fake LPs were also common, and Sam Goody got caught with those, too.

One wonders how they were able to fake overly aggressive dynamic range compression. 🤔

Those record counterfeiting cases weren't that common even in the heyday of vinyl. The Sam Goody case is pretty famous. There was also a practice of 'backdooring'- legit plant making legit copies for whatever label presses more than required and 'back doors' them through illicit sales channels.
Hard goods piracy in the record business was on the decline given the market for digital, though I'm sure there were counterfeit CDs, DVDs, etc. The focus of the industry was very much on Internet file sharing, and mainly in the civil, not criminal realm. Post-9/11- also not real easy to get the Feds interested in much unless it was really egregious. 
And, of course, that business was the domain of the wise guys in the US.