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A Merchant who sold counterfeit clothes from his stall at Wellesbourne market will have to promote a house he owns to pay a £60,000 confiscation order or face 20 months in pen.
Earlier this year stallholder Zaheer Ahmed escaped a poky sentence for selling the illegal clothing at Wellesbourne and Donnington markets.
Warwick Potentate Court heard that the clothing seized from Ahmed, which would have been worth £58,000 if it was frank, would have sold for around £16,000 on his two stalls.
Ahmed, 33, of Avondale Means, Sparkhill, Birmingham, who admitted seven charges of possessing feign goods and seven of having them for sale, was given a six month suspended judgement and ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work.
A confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Violation Act was adjourned for an investigation into his finances.
And at the resumed hearing prosecutor Ben Williams said it had been designed that, including the value of the fake clothes, Ahmed’s benefit from his forbidden activity had been a total of £105,835.
Source: Stratford Observer