A joint raid on six Southall business units by Ealing Council, Brent, Harrow and Richmond Councils, along with the police and immigration officers, resulted in the recovery of 16,000 fake items.

The stash of fakes were mainly electrical goods and branded mobile phone accessories including Apple, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Gucci.

The raid, which took place on Thursday, 30 October at the premises based in the Charles House industrial estate, also uncovered a secret doorway concealing an upstairs storage area stuffed with nearly 16,000 counterfeit mobile phone accessories, many displaying ‘designer’ names.

The secret storeroom also contained a number of potentially dangerous electrical items that did not appear to meet British safety standards, which officers seized along with the branded fakes. These items will now be tested.

Among the tally of seized goods were 4,000 potentially unsafe phone chargers and counterfeit mobile phone accessories from well-known brands including Apple, Chanel, Disney, One Direction, Jack Daniels, Beats, Louis Vuitton, Batman and Microsoft and more than 1,300 fake Apple lightening phone cables.

As well as netting the haul of fake goods, the operation resulted in six people being arrested by officers from the UK Immigration Service.

Ealing’s deputy leader and cabinet member for community services and safety, Councillor Ranjit Dheer said: "This is another great result for Ealing’s trading standards team, working together with neighbouring councils and the police and immigration service. By successfully uncovering yet more potentially unsafe electrical items and fake designer goods, they have really helped to stem the flow of illegal, possibly dangerous goods from flooding the market."