Proceeds of crime prosecutors have accepted an offer of little more than £30,000 from a fake designer goods merchant who made more than a million pounds from flogging bogus bling.
Conroy Lindsay, dubbed "Scotland's King of Bling", was jailed in September 2022 after trading standards officers investigated an advertiser on Gumtree promoting himself as "The Watch Seller". They found his bedroom wardrobe stuffed with luxury watches, sunglasses, clothing and aftershave that would have been worth more than £650,000 if they hadn't been Chinese counterfeits.
The case was then continued for confiscation action under the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover financial gains Lindsay made by the bogus goods scheme. On Monday, Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that an agreement had been reached between the Crown and Lindsay's lawyers that the total proceeds of his general criminal conduct had amounted to £1,029,474.
