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Fake designer wear: 3 Indian-origin men in UK jailed
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Fake designer wear: 3 Indian-origin men in UK jailed. Two Indian-origin brothers and their father have been jailed for manufacturing fake designer garments under international brand names like Adidas and Nike in the British city of Leicester.
LONDON: Two Indian-origin brothers and their father have been jailed for manufacturing fake designer garments under international brand names like Adidas and Nike in the British city of Leicester.
Leicester Crown Court was told how their firm, Kully Screen Printing Limited, was "a large-scale, highly sophisticated and a professional operation."
Company director and principal offender Kuldip Singh was sentenced this week to 23 months and banned from holding company directorship for five years.
His father Shinderpal Singh and brother Sarbjit Singh were each jailed for 11 months, the local 'Leicester Mercury' newspaper reported.
The trio admitted offences under the 1994 Trade Mark Act between October 2010 and August 2011 and the court was told how their factory has since been destroyed in a fire.
Naomi Gilchrist, prosecuting for Leicester City Council trading standards, said: "The business was a front, behind which was a highly fraudulent counterfeiting operation."
She said more than 100,000 fake T-shirts, hooded tops and tracksuit bottoms were seized, bearing 27 brand names including Adidas, Nike, Hugo Boss, Lacoste and Diesel.
Judge Michael Pertsaid during the sentencing: "It was a large-scale enterprise deliberately being carried on as a wholly fraudulent exercise. It involved the production of goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds."
Shinderpal, 56, previously ran the business legitimately but when it failed to make a profit, passed it over to 26-year-old Kuldip in early 2010. By the following October, it was mainly producing counterfeit garments.
Trading standards called at the factory in August 2011 while 24-year-old Sarbjit was minding the premises as his brother and father were away in India.
The business had not submitted any accounts and he hid incriminating paperwork in a hole in the ceiling.
He also drove away a van of counterfeit clothes before council officers obtained a warrant.
Kuldip Singh admitted 26 offences under the Trade Mark Act, his father admitted 19 while his brother admitted 17.
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