A Bury New Road counterfeit goods seller dubbed himself 'Pablo Escobar'.
The basement unit below a takeaway on the road was twice raided by Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police in October 2020 and April 2021 with counterfeit goods estimated to be worth more than £1 million if they were genuine. Fraidon Wadood rented and ran the shop with Moshtagh Hashimi and Imran Jabarkhail hired as workers, who knew Wadood as 'Pablo'.
A probe launched by PIPCU and partners led to the shop first being raided in October 21, 2020, where 6,652 items of counterfeit clothing, watches, jewellery and perfume, were seized with Jabarkhail and Hashimi arrested. At Manchester Crown Court on June 6 all three were handed suspended sentences.
