برطانیہ کے علاقے سٹریٹ فورڈ روڈ پر واقع تین پاکستانی جیولرز کو اعلی معیار کی سونے کی چوڑیاں بیچنے کا جھوٹا دعوی کرنے پر چودہ سال کی سزا سنا دی گئی تینوں جیولرز چودہ قیراط سونے میں چاندی ، تانبا اور دیگر دھاتوں کی ملاوٹ کر کے اسے چوبیس اور باہیس قیراط کا کہہ کر فروخت کرتے تھے جس کی وجہ سے ہزاروں پاونڈ منافع کماتے تھے برمنگھم ٹریڈنگ سٹینڈرڈ نے خود جا کر چوڑیوں کو خریدا اور اس پر مکمل جانچ پڑتال کی اور چوڑیاں جعلی ثابت ہوئی اور چودہ قیراط سے کم تھی اس کے بعد برمنگھم ٹریڈنگ سٹینڈرڈ نے ان جیولرز کی دکانوں پر چھاپے مارے جہاں چوڑیاں تیار ہو رہی تھی سٹریٹ فورڈ روڈ پر واقع شیزا جیولرز اورصبیحہ شاہین جیولرز کے مالکان کو گرفتار کیا اور چودہ سال کی سزا بھی سنا دی گئی ۔ جیولرز نے پانچ سال پہلے کاروبار شروع کیا اور ملین پاونڈ سے زائد منافع حاصل کر چکے ہیں
Birmingham; Three jewellers who falsely claimed that sets of gold bangles they manufactured and sold were made from higher quality gold have been jailed for a total of 14 years.
Ibrar Hussain, aged 38, and Sabhia Shaheen, aged 40, of Shiza Jewellers, based at 681 Stratford Road, together with 47-year-old Mohammed Afsar, known as Malik, of Zaiver Jewellers, at 787 Stratford Road passed off low quality gold bangles as 22 carat by infilling them with silver copper and other alloys and applying a heavy gold plate to finish.
By doing this they were able to increase their profits per set of bangles by as much as £1,200.
Birmingham Trading Standards officers carried out test purchases of gold bangle sets described as 22 carat at both jewellers – but when tested by the Birmingham Assay Office, the bangles were found to be of low quality gold and in some cases could only be hallmarked at no more than 14 carat.
As a consequence, raids were carried out by Birmingham Trading Standards at both jewellers, where workshops manufacturing the bangles were found.
The scam had been in operation for more than five years and it is thought that all three profited by as much as £1 million over that period.
Officers also searched two residential premises in Handsworth and Bearwood where secret workshops had been set up to manufacture the fake gold bangles on an industrial scale.
Additionally, Hussain was also found guilty of three counts of intimidating prosecution witnesses with threats of violence to them or their families, while Afsar was also found guilty of blackmail for coercing one of the witnesses to work for him without pay under the threat of violence to his family.
Hussain was jailed for five years for conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation, plus 12 months for two of the witness intimidation offences and a further 12 months for the third witness intimidation offence. The sentences will run consecutively, meaning Hussain was jailed for a total of seven years.
Shaheen was jailed for three years for conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and disqualified from being a director for seven years.
Afsar was jailed for four years for conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and four years for the blackmail offence, to run concurrently.
