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Men behind Britain's biggest DVD piracy scam jailed for six years

by Parm Mann on 28 July 2009, 14:26

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A father and two sons who ran Britain's biggest DVD piracy scam have been sentenced to jail at Southwark Crown Court.

Khalid Asghar-Sheikh, 53, jailed for four years, and sons Sami, 28, and Rafi, 26, both jailed for six years, are believed to have made up to £7m from a sophisticated operation involving the piracy of blockbuster DVD movies and unregulated pornography.

The trio, first identified following police raids in 2006, had imported high-tech equipment from Vietnam and Hong Kong to create high-quality pirate DVDs. Using production lines setup in semi-detached housing across London, the men employed Chinese immigrants as slave labour.

The father and sons were all found to have been claiming benefits, and police are still unable to trace the millions of pounds made by the operation.



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I hate to say this but I am not suprised to see that these guys didn't have English names
indeed, its depressing that i expected both the benefits claiming and foreign names.

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Blimey and the cheeky buggers were claiming benefits too :surprised:

For seven million quid 6 years is not that much of a detterant - they'll probably come out in 6 years and have earn't a nice load of interest on their ill gotten gains. :mad:
gg

How many dvds must they have sold to get 7 million? Q_Q
Jay
I hate to say this but I am not suprised to see that these guys didn't have English names
Errrr, I don't have an English name, does that make me a pirate? :confused:

Flash477
For seven million quid 6 years is not that much of a detterant - they'll probably come out in 6 years and have earn't a nice load of interest on their ill gotten gains. :mad:
I would doubt they were allowed to keep that, it was probably frozen and the government took it.