A Southall business whose "trader acted callously" has been fined £8,000 for intension to supply unlicensed erectile tablets and counterfeit goods.

Mano Singh Gaba, who owns Ajmeet UK Limited, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates Court for sentencing last week where in addition to company penalties, he was personally fined £2,777, having pled guilty to all charges against him at an earlier hearing.

The sentencing follows a joint operation between Metropolitan police officers and Ealing Council's trading standards team last April in which a raid on a shipping container in Enterprise Way, Southall, unearthed around 12,000 unlicensed erectile tablets and hundreds of Kamgra oral jelly sachets.

Also stashed in the container, leased by Mr Gaba, were large quantities of counterfeit 'Jack Daniels' and 'BMW' lighters, 'Liverpool FC' ashtrays, 'Superman' stickers and other items bearing trademarked protected logos.

Counterfeit and unlicensed erectile dysfunction tablets are particularly dangerous to anyone prescribed medicines for their liver, heart, kidney or blood pressure, say health experts. None of the medicines stored in the container had been cleared by the UK regulator.

In addition to court costs of £1,000 and a victim surcharge of £162, Mr Gaba was personally fined £1,615 and the company £3,000 for offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. The company was also fined £2,000 for offences under the Trade Marks Act, with court costs of £3,000 and a victim surcharge of £162.

Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, cabinet member for decent living incomes said: "This is a fantastic result and shows great cooperation between our trading standards team and police.

"We have pledged to get tough on operators of bad businesses who flout the law and these actions have sent a warning to those who might try to profit by importing and selling illicit goods.

"This is a particularly horrendous case, where the trader acted callously; pumping potentially fatal unlicensed and unregulated medicines onto the streets. Something, we've shown, we won't stand for."

"Selling and buying illicit goods takes business away from legitimate, hardworking retailers," added Councillor Mahfouz.

"We want to protect good, reputable traders whose livelihoods are put at risk and consumers whose health may be in danger."