A shop owner in London's Tocadero Centre earned over £73,000 in faulty phone and tablet chargers. Barhtyar Mohammed Salih, 56, store was raided by officers of the Westminster council trading standards officers after a customer found his iPad charger emitting smoke. Counterfeit chargers were found in massive numbers.
The devices were found to be poorly insulated with plug pins the wrong size, all that made them prone to melting or catching fire easily. It was also revealed that most of the products were made in China. Salih pleaded guilty to 26 offences relating to the sale of dangerous device chargers and counterfeit items. The Southwark crown court ruled that he pay £85,000, including costs of £12,305. The vendor was also sentenced to community orders and a three-month curfew before he was asked to pay the cash.
