When trading standards officers raided the premises it was stuffed to the rafters with hooky goods. There were 10,000 counterfeit vaping liquids, 9,000 fake Apple phone accessories, and 800 dangerous Christmas fairy lights, some with bare wires exposed and two pin, unearthed plugs, and 400 counterfeit games and toys.
An investigation had been triggered after a customer suffered an electric shock from fairy lights he had bought. In total 24,000 non-compliant items were seized from Aulola UK Ltd, based in Broughton Lane, Salford, over ten months.
At court a representative of the firm suggested they should get a formal caution -instead they have been hit with a £46,500 fine for putting consumers at risk, and goods worth a quarter of a million pounds seized.
