A judge has warned a father Father Shinderpal Singh and sons Kuldip Singh and Sarbjit Singh that the court is prepared to seize the entire £173,000 they made from producing counterfeit clothes. They were jailed last year for producing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of fake designer wear at their Spinney Hills, Leicester factory. The counterfeit operation was discovered when trading standards officials raided the Galby Street factory of Kully Screen Printing Ltd, in August 2011.
Judge Michael Fowler ordered the seizure of £15,000 from 26-year-old Kuldip Singh, who was considered to be the head of the illegal operation. His father Shinderpal Singh, 56, and his brother 25-year-old Sarbjit, were each jailed for 11 months.
In September last year they were ordered to hand over £65,500 and £4,680 respectively at a proceeds of crime hearing. Kuldip, the company director, was jailed for 23 months and banned from being a company director for five years.
The latest seizure at Leicester Crown Court brought the total confiscated from the family to more than £85,000.
Kuldip Singh, who is now out of prison, was given until May 11 to pay the £15,000 or serve another nine months in jail in default.
The factory has since been destroyed in a fire.
