Men caught by undercover detectives selling counterfeit designer goods
Muhammad Ali was caught selling a fake Louis Vuitton bag (Picture MENS Syndication)
Top designer firms like Louis Vuitton hired a private eye to track down counterfeit criminals pushing £1 million worth of fake good.
Officers went undercover as customers to catch out four shops in Cheetham Hill area of Manchester.
Retired DCI David McKelvey spearheaded ‘Operation Mordor’ at his investigation firm TM Eye Ltd.
They discovered the criminals were using WhatsApp to advertise the fake products.

One shop sold a replica red Mulberry handbag for £18 – genuine price £795.
A second shop sold a knock-off Louis Vuitton travel bag for £23 – genuine price more than £1,000.
On top of that, a police raid last December at a premises in Bury New Road and Harris Street was worth a whopping £1 million at genuine prices.
Four men who work in shops selling counterfeit clothes, jewellery, electrical items and accessories were arrested.
All four pleaded guilty to charges of selling or possessing counterfeit goods at Manchester Magistrates’ Court.

Manchester Magistrates Court Operation with raids on two premises in the Cheetham Hill area and the service of criminal summons on four suspects. Counterfeit goods valued at over £1 million were seized and filled an entire 40-foot container nPic Riasat Ali leaving court nn
Riasat Ali (Picture: MENS Syndication)
Manchester Magistrates Court Operation with raids on two premises in the Cheetham Hill area and the service of criminal summons on four suspects. Counterfeit goods valued at over £1 million were seized and filled an entire 40-foot container nPic Mohammadawa Nazari leaving court nn
Mohammadawa Nazari (Picture: MENS Syndication)
Manchester Magistrates Court Operation with raids on two premises in the Cheetham Hill area and the service of criminal summons on four suspects. Counterfeit goods valued at over £1 million were seized and filled an entire 40-foot container nPic Eraj Nezamuddin leaving court nn
Eraj Nezamuddin (Picture: MENS Syndication)
Riasat Ali, 42, of Crumpsall, Manchester, sold four fake Louis Vuitton compact mirrors and SuperDry jackets and t-shirts at a shop on Great Ducie Street in Cheetham.
He was sentenced to eight weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, with 200 hours of unpaid work.
Muhammad Ali, 38, of Manchester, was caught at a store on Great Ducie Street selling a fake Louis Vuitton bag that retails for £685.
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 150 hours of unpaid work.

Mohammadawa Nazari, 40 of Cheetham, sold fake Louis Vuitton handbags and earrings, Chanel earrings, a Mulberry clutch and a Jimmy Choo handbag from
a store in Harris Street.
Eraj Nezamuddin, 28, of Salford, was caught selling fake Mulberry and Louis Vuitton bags.
Both Nezamuddin and Nazari are due to be sentenced next month.
Mr McKelvey said outside court that the UK economy has lost around £100 million to this type of criminal activity.
At the slightest suspicion of any police or trading standards activity in the area, the shops close immediately.
The area is the effective hub for most of the fake goods that enter the UK.
The losses to the UK economy from this criminality in the period of Operation Mordor were vast, probably in excess of £100 million.

Prosector Sarah Wood told the court the men were ‘effectively acting as wholesalers’ and were employed to work by others.
Four more suspected sellers have now been issued with court summonses as the investigation continues.