Following a request for business advice, the Council's Trading Standards team recently visited a retail premises in Perth city centre and found nearly 300 items of counterfeit clothing and handbags.
The products, all of very poor quality and with generic labels, making them easily identifiable as counterfeit, were seized and will be destroyed. The designer brands ranged from Fred Perry to Moschino and Balmain Paris to Balenciaga and represent the widest range of brand names seen in Perth and Kinross in recent years.
The business owner claimed that the clothes were 'pre-loved, refurbished, never worn' designer clothes, purchased from a company in Bangladesh in the belief that they were genuine articles.
Housing and Social Wellbeing Convener, Councillor Tom McEwan welcomed the action taken: "Our Trading Standards team work hard to get counterfeit goods of many different types out of circulation and reduce the risk of shoppers getting ripped off - if a deal on an apparent designer label item seems too good to be true, it probably is."
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