Counterfeit clothing dealer jailed

A TRADER found with more than £70,000 of fake clothing has been jailed for ten months. Ivan Genis, 58, of Hendon Wood Lane, Barnet, was jailed at Wood Green Crown Court last month after being found guilty of five charges of being a director of a firm looking to sell counterfeit goods. He was also ordered to pay costs of almost £18,000 to Haringey Council. The court heard how Genis sold the fake goods, including counterfeit Nike, Adidas and Ralph Lauren clothes, to retailers across the UK from his warehouse in White Hart Lane, Tottenham.
They then unwittingly sold the counterfeit clothing on to the public. When Haringey Council’s trading standards team raided the warehouse, as well as Genis’ Brands Plaza Trading Limited premises in Borehamwood, in May 2009 and July 2011, they seized thousands of t-shirts, polo shirts and tracksuit bottoms worth £73,000.
The council is now seeking to recover any profits Genis made from selling the knock-off goods, while the court ruled he must forfeit his stash of dodgy clothes.