Oldham Council’s Trading Standards department has successfully prosecuted a trader for possessing counterfeit cosmetics and trying to pass them off as the real thing.
In 2019, as part of an investigation into the supply of counterfeit goods, officers searched a self-storage unit in Oldham and found 720 ‘Huda Beauty’ and 42 ‘Morphe’ makeup palettes.
On closer inspection they were all found to be fake.The cosmetics had been imported and delivered to the storage unit.
The value of the goods if they had been genuine products rather than fake would have been in the region of £33,000.
The owner of the unit Ms Fan Jiang, of Hexham Road, Gorton, aged 34 was interviewed under caution and a decision was taken to prosecute her.
At an earlier hearing at Tameside Magistrates Court Jiang pleaded guilty to two offences of possession for supply under the Trade Marks Act 1994.
On January 4 She returned to court for sentencing and was ordered to undertake 200 hours community service and pay £3,700 towards the prosecution’s costs.
The court also said that the seized items should be destroyed.
