Southall trader jailed for piracy
By:
Taran
Adarsh,
IndiaFM
Tuesday,
April
24,
2007
A
Southall
Broadway
trader
has
been
sentenced
to
15
months
in
jail
after
he
was
caught
with
20,000
pirate
DVDs
and
CDs
during
a
joint
investigation
by
Ealing
Council
and
the
Metropolitan
Police.
Valued at more than £ 200,000, the haul was seized during a raid on a retail unit in Punjabi Bazaar [45 The Broadway, Southall] and an associated flat by officers from the Council's Trading Standards team and the Southall Broadway Safer Neighbourhood Police Team on 5th May last year.
In Isleworth Crown Court on Friday [20th April], Raghubir Singh Chopra, a 27-year-old man from Hayes, pleaded guilty to the possession for sale of illegal counterfeit DVDs and associated offences under the Trade Marks Act 1994. He was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment.
Officers raided the unit and flat following intelligence and information received from a variety of sources including local residents. Nearly all the DVDs seized were Bollywood films, some of which had not yet been released in U.K. cinemas.
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