The Mongols Motorcycle Club, considered one of the nation's most violent biker gangs, astonished authorities last fall when it quietly chartered the first of what it now claims are four chapters in Oregon. Flying its colors in Portland, Eugene, Medford and Bend without permission of the state's other outlaw motorcycle clubs defies a long-held code of biker conduct, an insult that police worry will provoke a turf war. Oregon's five other outlaw motorcycle clubs, classified as gangs by the state's attorney general, have enjoyed a recent lull in their long conflict with police. Some of those bikers have spent the past few years on the offensive, suing police when they feel their civil rights have been trampled.
The Mongols' reputation preceded them. For 30 years, the California-based club has fought a bloody war with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The public got a glimpse in 2002, when surveillance cameras caught bikers clashing with knives, guns and hand tools at Harrah's Casino in Laughlin, Nev., leaving two Angels and a Mongol dead.
Retired federal agent Billy Queen, who rode undercover with the Mongols for two years leading up to the Laughlin riot, said the club's sudden appearance in Oregon means trouble. "The Mongols want to be No. 1; they want to be known as the baddest biker club rollin' out there," said Queen, whose work helped convict 53 Mongols of crimes ranging from motorcycle theft to murder. The club's leadership has combed the barrios of East L.A., Queen said, recruiting members of street gangs -- even those without motorcycles -- "to beef the numbers up and take on the Hells Angels."
Although Oregon's Mongols claim more than two dozen members, criminal intelligence experts have counted fewer than 20 -- and that number includes associates. The club's North American membership has swelled from about 350 to 750 in the past six years, according to Queen. By comparison, police say the Hells Angels number about 3,600 worldwide.

Vicious street gangs, committed to violence, have spread throughout the Americas and are now a significant threat in the US. The groups spread to Central American states after being born in the US MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - is the biggest and fastest-growing of the Latin American street gangs. In Maryland alone, MS-13 members are accused of being responsible for a long series of violent crimes including murder. Favoured tactics include decapitation by machete. MS-13 started life as a group of young immigrants on the streets of California in the 1980s. After nearly a million Salvadorans fled their civil war for the US, many of them settled in Los Angeles where gang violence was rife. In the 1990s, the "maras" spread to Central America after many of their leaders were deported from the United States. Those countries, struggling to get back on their feet after years of devastating civil conflict, were a perfect setting in which gangs could proliferate. There's evidence that the model of the gang is rape, kill, control. They're really about gaining control over other immigrants from their community Rod J Rosenstein, US attorney for Maryland
Today, some estimates put up to 60,000 maras active in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and - according to the FBI - in more than 40 US states. Rod J Rosenstein is Maryland's US Attorney. His office is currently prosecuting a series of cases against MS-13. He told us the gang's motives are more about mayhem than money. "There's evidence that the model of the gang is rape, kill, control," he said. "They're really about gaining control over other immigrants from their community, intimidating people and asserting some degree of threat which enables them to control their neighbourhoods." Rosenstein's prosecutors have moved on from charging individual gang members with discrete crimes. Instead, they are now targeting MS-13 with federal racketeering laws - the same legislation used against the Mafia and other organised crime. For this tactic to be successful, they must prove that MS-13 is indeed an organised network.
The prosecutors spend much of their time talking about gang meetings; about the clothes - blue and white for MS-13 - and the tattoos. And, most damningly, an alleged firm link between gang leaders in El Salvador and their proteges in the US.
In June 2007, the then US Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales held a press conference to announce charges against MS-13 leaders in El Salvador. Police seem unable to crack the strength of the gangs The indictment alleged that Saul Antonios Turcos Angel communicated with members of the "Teclas Locos Salvatruchos" clique in Maryland via mobile phone and ordered them to commit two murders.
Later that day gang members in Maryland killed two people and wounded a juvenile.
The links between the countries are clear. The court in Greenbelt was shown a home video made by the gang in a Salvadoran prison.
In it, maras send greetings to their "homies" in Maryland and other parts of the US.
They talk of killing and controlling others and display their full-body tattoos in a show of allegiance to MS-13. Mindful of these trans-national links, the FBI last year made the decision to open an office in El Salvador. Aaron Escorza heads the FBI's National Gang Task Force. He told us the gangs move freely around the region. "They don't recognise borders. They commit crimes in El Salvador, flee El Salvador to come to the US and you have MS-ers who are committing crimes in the US and fleeing down to El Salvador to evade arrest." But once in El Salvador, the challenge to authorities is immense. Entire swathes of the capital are virtually under the control of MS-13 and its rival, Mara 18. Local police patrol warily, tending when possible to avoid those parts of the city. The region's homicide rates are among the highest in the world - 58 per 100,000 of population in El Salvador. The past decade has seen politicians rise to power on the back of promises to declare war against the gangs. The "Mano Dura" - or Hard Fist - policy introduced by Honduras at the start of the decade was closely followed by "Super Mano Dura" in El Salvador. The legislation meant police could round up gang members at will, throwing young men in prison for any suspicious behaviour, including associating with likely gang members or sporting tattoos. The result was thousands of gang members in prison.But courts were not able to process such numbers and many lingered in prison without charge. The prisons themselves have become strongholds of the gangs, many of them controlled by the Maras themselves, the authorities guard only from the outside. The "Mano Dura" policies are now largely discredited. On patrol in San Salvador, the police told us the laws had been counter-productive, driving the gangs underground and leading to more clever tactics from the likes of MS-13. They pointed out men who could be Maras, but who now wear long t-shirts to cover their tattoos. The graffiti that used to be ubiquitous, identifying each gang's territory, is no longer so obvious. Mano Dura made the prisons into virtual headquarters for the gangs. And the US deportation policy added to the problem, with the result that the gangs have become ever more organised and powerful. Jose Miguel Cruz, of the University of Central America, who has studied the Maras for over a decade, says these approaches have led to a "revolving door" effect. "MS-13 has spread across the US and is a major security problem in Central America. We haven't tried any more preventative measures." He draws a comparison with Nicaragua. "They also are poor, they also have weak institutions." If we can lock them away we will but if we can't, they should be deported Julie Myers, US assistant secretary of state for homeland security But Nicaragua has so far managed to avoid any large-scale gang problem. Why? "The police concentrate on more preventative measures," says Mr Cruz. Former gang member Edgar Ramirez backed this up. When he arrived back from the US, deported after a three-year prison sentence, he said there were no opportunities, no way back into normal society.
"I had tattoos so everyone treated me like a criminal," he tells us.
"And if you speak English, they know you're a deportee."
For now, US policy remains focused on law-enforcement.
The US Assistant Secretary of State for Homeland Security, Julie Myers, says it must remain the priority. "If we can lock them away we will, but if we can't, they should be deported," she told us.
"We have to think about stopping young people going into gangs; but I believe the American public is safer when we remove these individuals from the streets of our communities and deport them wherever possible."
In the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was fighting a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Central America, he promised to rebuild a new, better, El Salvador.
But after spending so much on the war, there was little appetite in Washington for the reconstruction project. Two decades later, the US is reaping the consequences. And in Central America, a region still struggling with poverty and crime, MS-13 has thrived. Law enforcement alone does not seem to be enough to contain it.

“dirty money” raids.More than £500,000-worth of cash and property was seized in strikes this week following a major investigation into suspected organised crime.
Porsche came under scrutiny in a secure compound along with two seized Range Rovers and other cars.The Northumbria police canines were brought in to uncover potential signs of drugs trafficking and other offences.Officers swooped on 24 addresses in the region identified from intelligence work gathered over an 18-months period.The vehicles being held included an Aston Martin, a Porsche, and several Range Rovers.
The operation, carried out by North Tyneside command area, supported by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) also netted around £35,000 in cash.There were 16 arrests during early-morning raids in North Tyneside, Newcastle, Northumberland and Durham, all of whom await their fate on bail.Det Chief Insp Ian Bentham, of North Tyneside command area, said: “We are looking for traces of substances or other material which may be hidden in small spaces.“The evidence gathering process will continue.”False passports and other documentation, firearms, computers and small amounts of cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines were also seized.
Northumbria Police Crime Operations Department also took part in the investigation.The suspects were arrested on suspicion of financial offences, including money laundering.Police have served orders on six solicitors to preserve conveyancing documents relating to property transactions. The Chronicle understands some of the homes also under scrutiny are based in Thailand in the Far East.Around 200 officers were involved in the raids, which centred on prime locations in some upmarket areas of Tynemouth, Newcastle and Northumberland.
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, police can seize any cash or goods if they are believed to be criminal property or being used to commit crime.Supt Peter Farrell, of the area command, said: “The arrests are not the end of this operation.“The process will continue to assess and collate the evidence.“Work will continue in the community with the assistance of neighbourhood teams.”

UBS's former chief, Luqman Arnold, thinks it's time to hack away at the massive Swiss bank. The old marriage of smooth, German-speaking private bankers in suspenders with Harvard MBAs might never have really worked. But after $37-billion (U.S.) in writeoffs, the relationship may finally rupture and Mr. Arnold believes that may be a good thing.John Reed, the banker who helped pull off the $80-billion deal that created Citigroup in 1998, admitted last week that he has regrets. Give him points for honesty but not for originality: In 2006, a year before the Epidemic of Mortgage Despair, it wasn't hard to find investors who believed the bank would be worth a lot more carved in pieces than the $50 stock price (since cut in half) would indicate.Is this the end of the so-called financial supermarket, one of the biggest business concepts to come out of the 1990s? It seemed like a good idea at the time. If you can sell mortgages, business loans and financial advice, why not home insurance and mutual funds, too? Why not online trading, loans for hedge funds, private investments in Asia? Health coverage for the family cat?That was then. Now, more equals morass. Any big bank that runs into losses immediately finds itself in a debate about whether complexity is to blame. CIBC dropped $3-billion on U.S. mortgage securities and before you knew it, Bay Street was chattering (albeit not that seriously) about whether CIBC World Markets could be divested. This is one of the two or three best investment-banking franchises in Canada. In the blogosphere, Merrill Lynch is already a breakup target, and those who haven't thought about it surely will after this week's first-quarter loss of nearly $2-billion, its third successive quarter in the red.Merrill seems the epitome of the problems with growth gone wild. The firm is in Uruguay. It's in Indonesia. It's in Lebanon. The sun never sets on Mother Merrill's empire, and the building of it is one reason the market capitalization has risen from $32-billion to $45-billion in 10 years. But look closer: The share price is still where it was a decade ago. All of the "growth" has come from a rising share count.But is it really time to bust apart the world's great financial conglomerates? Don't count on it. If anything, the supermarket idea may emerge from the current mess looking better than before. That's not to say that Citi or UBS or Merrill or Morgan Stanley will carry on as they are. But they didn't falter because they're too big. That's just an excuse for inept management.The breakup crowd has scored some points lately. Diversified banks, like all conglomerates, often trade for less than the sum of their parts. But the bigger problem, and one that is apparent only in rough times, is the risk that rot in one part of the business harms another. Mr. Arnold calls UBS's reputation "comprehensively destroyed" by its trading blunders in mortgage securities that had nothing to do with customers. If you were, say, a Belgian multimillionaire, would you hesitate now before handing your money over to UBS? Mr. Reed wonders whether Citi, in trying to straddle the globe, became unmanageable.
But - for all their problems - UBS and Citi are still here. The biggest failures of this crisis are not the conglomerates but the specialists: Countrywide Financial, mortgage "originators," monoline bond insurers. Bear Stearns had a few different lines of business, but for its size, it was overly reliant on prime brokerage customers - hedge funds - which is one reason its liquidity dried up so suddenly in mid-March. But when they needed billions in fresh capital, Citigroup, UBS, CIBC and other diversified banks were all able to get it. Why? Because the supermarket model has its benefits, too. Each of those banks has something on which to rebuild. Few noticed, but the truly Swiss part of UBS, business banking and wealth management, had a crackerjack year in 2007, posting a 16-per-cent rise in pretax profit. CIBC has one damaged franchise but several very good ones, including its credit card unit.There is another reason, too, why the conglomerates will survive. For every Citigroup or CIBC, there's a JPMorgan Chase or a Royal Bank of Canada - just as large and complicated - that appears to be making it work. And guess what: The balance of power has now shifted in their direction.When the credit markets are fine, and XYZ Corp. needs money, it doesn't need RBC; it can just tap the bond market. But when it requires a cattle prod to get anyone to buy high-yield debt, suddenly a bank's balance sheet comes in handy. The banks that will be able to make the loan - on their own terms - are large and diversified. Big banks helped get the U.S. economy into the soup. But the healthy ones will also help get it out. Long live the mega-bank, an imperfect idea whose time has come

Credit Suisse reckons Barclays could do with £6bn of capital and HBOS £4.5bn, compared with the £12bn it says RBS needs.Political pressure for the banks to strengthen their finances, as a "quid pro quo" for the £50bn-£100bn of liquidity support the Government is planning, might tip the scales. Both HBOS and Barclays have been in contact with regulators about their capital positions.With sub-prime provisions worsening and bad debts on UK mortgages certain to rise as house prices stumble and mortgage costs soar, the banks have been told they need to be in as strong a position as possible.Analysts have given up trying to predict the level of new sub-prime provisions, but they claim UK banks have been more optimistic than US peers in their assumptions to date. Britain's banks are all expected to reveal further, significant writedowns that erode the capital base in the coming weeks.
With less capital, the financial position of the bank weakens - jeopardising growth prospects at the very least and raising the prospect of regulatory intervention in the worst case scenario. Barclays and HBOS have the weakest capital positions after RBS. Barclays, in particular, is exposed to worsening sub-prime conditions that threaten its capital.For them, the issue may be whether to sell assets or to go to shareholders. As is thought to be the case with RBS, a rights issue would be accompanied by a dividend cut, making it a far less attractive option. But the scale of the funds Credit Suisse estimates the two lenders require would suggest they have little choice.Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley are considered next at risk. Although B&B has a strong capital position, analysts expect its mortgage bad debts to mount rapidly as it is a specialist in buy-to-let and self-certification, areas of the market considered higher risk.Being smaller lenders, both are also likely to find it more difficult to raise new funds at affordable levels as the credit crunch slowly plays out. UBS analyst Alastair Ryan said: "For the foreseeable future, these companies are likely to see volumes declining. As we anticipate bad debts rising, this leaves profits on the wane." With profits falling, he believes they will be obliged to cut the dividend - by 37pc at A&L and 19pc at B&B.capital restoration measures would normally put management under pressure, but Mr Ryan believes the exceptional and sudden deterioration in the credit markets provides an excuse for British executives."We don't believe cutting the dividend would be taken as an indictment of management by shareholders," he said. "It would be demonstrable that market conditions were the driver of the cuts, and management teams could expect to remain in place."Not all of Britain's banks are in trouble. HSBC is well capitalised and flush with liquidity, as is the Asian markets specialist Standard Chartered. Lloyds TSB sits somewhere in-between.Although it has a relatively strong capital position, it may have to abandon its recently renewed progressive dividend policy because its dividend cover is the lowest in the industry. Profits are expected to slide due to the higher cost of funding and Lloyds cannot afford to eat into capital to pay out an increasing dividend. Although a cut does not appear to be on the cards, Lloyds may have to revert to its policy of the previous five years - leaving the dividend unchanged.

Australian Government is refusing to provide details of a secret year-long investigation into a "plausible and serious" corruption case within an Australian law enforcement agency.The Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity — the corruption watchdog that oversees the Federal Police and other crime-fighting agencies — delivered the report to Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus late last month.
It was the culmination of a protracted and detailed investigation involving four secret hearings and the use of "coercive" powers allowed under special laws.Integrity Commissioner Philip Moss has revealed to a parliamentary committee that for the past year he had been investigating what appeared to be significant and credible corruption first raised by the Australian Crime Commission."In relation to that particular case I used coercive powers and conducted four hearings," Mr Moss said. "It raised, on the face of it, very plausible and serious matters."
Mr Moss confirmed that the report had been "with the minister" since March 31, conceding it could theoretically sit unheeded in his office indefinitely.
"In theory that could happen, but that would not be allowed to happen — we would certainly be asking," he said.The allegations and the result of the investigation remain a mystery although given the commission's responsibilities it is likely to involve allegations of corruption in the Federal Police, the Crime Commission or a related agency.Mr Debus' spokeswoman, Samantha Wills, said the claims in the report could not be substantiated but confirmed that the Government will not be publicly releasing it."The minister has received the report, however, the Integrity Commissioner has advised him against releasing the investigation report at this time," Ms Wills said.Opposition justice spokesman Christopher Pyne said Mr Debus had a responsibility to indicate how he intended to deal with the issue. He said it highlighted a major deficiency in the handling of alleged corruption cases in the Commonwealth Government, raising the possibility that ministers could simply fail to act on politically sensitive investigations."There are situations even in the NSW jurisdiction right now with respect to corruption where a state minister might not want to pursue a particular activity if a report were made to them," Mr Pyne told the committee.Later, he said: "in the interest of public accountability and transparency which (Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd committed his Government to … this report, where appropriate, should be made publicly available with the Government's response released at the same time."The Federal Government is only required by law to table such reports in Parliament if investigations involved public hearings.

men have been arrested and bailed to return to a police station on 14 May after the raid at a house in Jack Warren Green, Cambridge, on 9 April. Following the raid, people in Cambridge are being warned to be on the look-out for counterfeit bank notes. The notes are described as new-style and on smoother than normal paper. There are also imperfections on the Queen's head and many of the serial numbers on them are the same. Anyone who thinks they have a fake note should take it to a bank but also contact Cambridgeshire Police.

Ansar Burney Trust, a Pakistani human and civil rights organisation, has been working to secure release of all the Pakistani nationals languishing in Indian jails since long. The move came at the heals of a two-week visit undertaken by Chairman Burney Trust and former federal minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney. Ansar Burney told this news agency on Saturday that the Trust would soon be releasing a list containing names of over 150 Pakistani nationals languishing in different Indian jails. He said that his Trust had already released two lists of prisoners, the latest contained names of 19 mentally retarded people.The Trust will also release pictures of these prisoners in an effort to trace their families in Pakistan, secure their release and repatriation, he added.Burney said “Most of these prisoners were arrested and sentenced for minor offenses such as overstaying or visiting more locations.”“Some had completed their sentences but were not released while few others were fishermen who had sailed into Indian waters accidentally,” he added.Ansar Burney has appealed to people to help in identifying these prisoners.
The Trust can be reached at: Ansar Burney Trust, Arambagh Road, Karachi.

1,288 registered sex offenders (adult and juvenile) living in Fort Worth as of April 10

1,249 male sex offenders

39 female sex offenders

972 sex offenders verified to be in compliance with law

316 sex offenders needing additional investigation

98 sex offenders needing additional investigation who appear to be out of compliance
The officers came to the east Fort Worth home in search of registered sex offender Marcus Traylor.Instead, they found Elicic Barron, a mother of three."The persons that was here, they had got evicted," Barron explained to the two plain-clothed Fort Worth officers as she cradled her 4-week-old son in her arms. "That's what the landlord had told us. He had got evicted."While officers Rick Benson and B.G. Levy's search was unsuccessful, their trip was not wasted. The written statement they obtained from Barron, describing how she and her family had moved into the rental home in February and did not know Traylor, is the evidence they'll need to obtain an arrest warrant against Traylor for violating the sex offender registration law.
Traylor, who was sentenced to two years in prison in 2003 for indecency with a 14-year-old girl, has already been convicted once for violating the registration law in 2005 -- earning him another two years in prison. A second conviction would enhance the offense to a second-degree felony."If he got evicted, we've got to give him sufficient time to find a new house," Benson said. "But he's had a month and a half, which is way enough time. Even after he got evicted, he should have called us."
This past week roughly 90 Fort Worth officers swept out across the city, knocking on doors to see whether registered sex offenders were living where they're supposed to be.Of 1,288 registered sex offenders living in Fort Worth, 972, or three quarters, were found to be in compliance with the law. The whereabouts of the remaining 316 will require further investigation because of reports that they may have been legitimately out of town. Of those needing follow-up, 98 appeared to be out of compliance, meaning felony warrants could be issued for their arrests."We're going to be working on warrants immediately," said Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Sex Crime, Registration, Apprehension and Monitoring Unit, or SCRAM. "Those that are not in compliance have a small window of opportunity to call our office and make an appointment to update their information. Otherwise, they will be arrested and we will file charges with the district attorney's office for failure to register."
Under state law, people convicted or adjudicated of a sexual offense on or after Sept. 1, 1970, and who were in prison or under supervision on Sept. 1, 1997, must register. The courts and parole board can also order such registration.Sex offenders must report any changes in address, in jobs, in cars, in license plates and in physical appearance, such as hairstyle. They must renew the registration at least once a year, and in more extreme cases, every 90 days or 30 days.
While the sex offender registry can be a useful resource, police caution that it's not a be-all, end-all resource for keeping people safe."When we were kids, there was no sex offender registration, but we all knew who the creepy guy on the corner was, and you didn't go trick-or-treating at his house and you didn't go by his house," said Detective Tracy Tillerson, one of two officers who registers sex offenders.
The law "is just an additional tool to help people know, 'OK, this person registered. He's committed a crime.' But the guy next door may be a sex offender who's never been caught yet," Tillerson said. "People assume if there's a sex offender in their ZIP code, that's the guy they need to be worried about. They need to be worried about everybody."Monitoring sex offenders is the full-time job of Benson and Levy, two of five officers in the SCRAM unit who are responsible for tracking them.Benson, who monitors them on the city's south side, said sex offenders can be very transient, sometimes because they make bad choices."Instead of telling their landlord, 'This is who I am, this is what I am' and being honest, they go in and lie," Benson said. "Then the landlord gets the background check on them a month later and they kick them out."Others, police say, will register an address with the department but never live there."They just think that either we're too busy to really keep up with it, or they just roll the dice," said Levy, who tracks offenders on the north side.When officers first went to the home of Philip Hurd earlier this week, the man's girlfriend told police that Hurd no longer lived there. Around 8 a.m. Monday, a panicked Hurd called Benson's cellphone, stating that his girlfriend had lied because she feared he would be arrested on an unrelated, pending assault charge.Benson said Hurd is one of the offenders who calls him frequently, eager to inform the officer of any changes so that he'll remain in compliance.
"I tell all of them if you get evicted, if your girlfriend kicks you out, if something bad happens, you call me 24/7," Benson said. "Every one of my offenders has my cellphone number."Tuesday, Benson and Levy made a surprise visit to Hurd's home to verify that he lives there. Hurd said he has no reservations about keeping police apprised of his whereabouts."It's not a problem for me. I ain't got nothing to hide," he said. "I ain't doing anything wrong, so it ain't a big deal to me."The troublesome side Others, the officers fear, may have something to hide.At their next stop, an elderly woman answered Levy's knock and confirmed that James R. Williams III used to live at her home. But, Victoria Franklin tells the officer, the 33--year-old man whom she considers an adopted son hasn't been around for about a year.
"He just left early in the morning, drove out about 3 or 3:30 a.m. in the morning and I haven't seen him since," Franklin said.Until this week, Franklin said she never even realized that Williams was a registered sex offender, a new insight that left her a little bothered."I'm a Christian. I'm a praying woman," Franklin said. "I've just been praying for him to try to do the right thing because I don't believe in doing wrong."

According to Tarrant County records, Williams was convicted of sexual assault of a child in 2003 and sentenced to two years in prison. Like Traylor, Williams has also been previously convicted of violating the sex offender registration law and sentenced to two years in prison as a result. Like Traylor, if Williams is convicted on a second violation, the degree of the felony offense would be enhanced.
Those who treat registering as a cat-and-mouse game upset Benson the most.
"They think they're smarter than the system," Benson said. "Those are the ones I not registering. What are they hiding? Why don't they want the general public to know where they are?
"Are they living with their girlfriend who has little kids and they want access to those kids? Are they on parole or probation and their probation officer can't know where they're really living?' There's a variety of reasons, but that's always my question."

Shafiq Hussain, 31, was sentenced to eight months in prison and Mohammed Khan, 21, received a six-month suspended sentence for their involvement in selling counterfeit goods at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in August 2006.The two Birmingham-based men appeared at Dorchester Crown Court to be sentenced after they admitted nine offences of possessing counterfeit clothing and one charge of selling goods with false trademarks.Michael Tomlinson, prosecuting, told the court that Dorset Trading Standards officers seized a total of 4,533 items from the two men, who had set up stalls at the steam fair.He said the stalls had been selling fake items with brand names such as Dolce and Gabana, Henri Lloyd, Lacoste, Nike, Timberland and Prada.
Mr Tomlinson said when they went to inspect the stalls, Trading Standards officers were accompanied by a representative from Lacoste, who confirmed the items were fake.
Khan said he was running the larger stall and confirmed Hussain was in charge of the smaller stall next door.In interview Khan admitted he was running the stall for someone else but refused to identify them.

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