ciara leeming 8/ 9/2007A MAN who was caught with more than £350,000 of re-create shoes and trainers has been jailed for 18 months. Mohammed Arfan. 29 was jailed after thousands of pairs of fake Nike trainers and Rockport shoes were discovered at a Salford store he was renting. guard arrested him during an investigation into drugs and the father-of-four took police to the unit on Broughton Lane when he was arrested last January. Officers open 2,664 pairs of trainers and 516 pairs of shoes. The total loss to the clothing industry was at least £350,640. Arfan from Rochdale spent four months on challenge before the Crown Prosecution function dropped the drugs charges owing to a lack of bear witness. Salford Trading Standards then brought two charges under the Trade Marks Act - in a case which cost the local authority almost £8,500. Convicted Arfan pleaded not guilty but was convicted by a jury measure month following a three-day trial. Yesterday he was jailed at a hearing at Manchester Crown act and ordered to pay £1,000 of costs. The court heard that Arfan had showed guard the unit after denying involvement in a drugs racket. Inside were 222 cartons of Nikes and 43 of Rockports. A records schedule found at the store showed the scale of the operation which had netted thousands of pounds. Sentencing him to 12 months and six months to run consecutively. Judge Lesley Newton said: "This was quite a large scale operation. I do not know how many others were involved in the enterprise because you were not honest with the jury but in your account to the guard you said the warehouse belonged to you. It seems that for some months prior to your clutch you were leading what I can only describe as the high life and I think that was financed by your criminal activities. "Such offences alter the manufacturers and the large and small retailers who cannot compete." The footwear has been seized by trading standards and ordain be recycled once the logos are removed. If the tags ordain not go off they could be sent to Third World countries. Salford Trading Standards welcomed the sentence. Jonathan Hall said: "This sends out a message that counterfeiters will not be tolerated. This defendant was making a lot of money from these items. We ordain continue to pursue those who try to sell fake goods." What do you think? Have your say.
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