The court heard Vigneswaran has been running the store since 2014 and was also responsible for another shop. Mr Clemens said Vigneswaran stood to make a profit of up to £483 by selling the 142 fake bottles. He paid in cash and never received a receipt or an invoice from the man, who was never found. Vigneswaran claimed he bought the wine from a man in an unmarked van who turned up at his shop one day offering him a deal. The eight charges Vigneswaran admitted were for selling fake products, failing to get information about where the products came from and selling drink with incorrect alcohol content information. The team discovered 148 bottles of Yellow Tail on sale in the store, Mr Clemens told the court.Ī few weeks later, analysis by the manufacturer of real Yellow Tail confirmed that all but six of the 148 bottles were fake.Īnd some of the wine, which was supposed to be 13.5 per cent alcohol content, was found to be less than 12 per cent. Mr Clemens said the tip-of was received on Decemand officials from the council's trading standards unit visited the shop two days later. "He took no steps to find out the origin of the wine or even whether it was safe to drink." Hundreds of expired McDonald's vouchers dumped along Humberstone Gate in city centre.
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Trading Standards officers received a tip-off that Kannan Vigneswaran was selling the illegal knock-off version of the popular Australian wine at Narborough General Stores, in Leicester Road, Narborough.Īnalysis proved the allegations were true and at Leicester Magistrates' Court today Vigneswaran, 45, of Guestwick Green, Hamilton, Leicester, pleaded guilty to breaches of the Trademark Act and the Food Safety Act. A village shopkeeper has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 after selling counterfeit Yellow Tail wine which, as well as being fake, was also weaker than the real thing.
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