A Southall business was fined £8,000 for intending to supply thousands of unlicensed erectile tablets and counterfeit goods.

Mr Mano Singh Gaba, director and owner of Ajmeet UK Limited based at Charles House was fined £2,777 at Uxbridge Magistrates Court.

This was the result of a joint trading standards and police operation launched in April 2021.

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Operation Rowan saw officers discover around 12,000 unlicensed erectile tablets and hundreds of Kamgra oral jelly sachets stashed in away in a 12 foot shipping container in Enterprise Way.

None of these medicines had been cleared by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Health experts have warned that taking counterfeit and unlicensed erectile dysfunctional tablet.

A large quantity of counterfeit ‘Jack Daniel’s’ and ‘BMW’ lighters, ‘Liverpool FC’ ashtrays and stickers bearing ‘Superman’ and other trade marked protected logos were also discovered during the raid.

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Mr Gaba entered guilty pleas to all charges against him at the first hearing.

Mr Gaba was personally fined £1,615 plus £1,000 court costs and a victim surcharge of £162.

The company was fined £3,000 for offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

The company was also fined £2,000 for offences under the Trade Marks Act, with court costs of £3,000 and a victim surcharge of £162.

Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, cabinet member for decent living incomes said: "This is a particularly horrendous case, where the trader acted callously; pumping potentially fatal unlicensed and unregulated medicines onto the streets. Something, we’ve shown, we won’t stand for."

Anyone who thinks they may have been sold illegal goods or suspects someone of selling them, can contact Ealing’s trading standards by emailing tradingstandards@ealing.gov.uk