A father and two sons who ran Britain's biggest DVD piracy scam have been sentenced to jail at Southwark Crown Court.
Khalid Asghar-Sheikh, 53, jailed for four years, and sons Sami, 28, and Rafi, 26, both jailed for six years, are believed to have made up to £7m from a sophisticated operation involving the piracy of blockbuster DVD movies and unregulated pornography.
The trio, first identified following police raids in 2006, had imported high-tech equipment from Vietnam and Hong Kong to create high-quality pirate DVDs. Using production lines setup in semi-detached housing across London, the men employed Chinese immigrants as slave labour.
The father and sons were all found to have been claiming benefits, and police are still unable to trace the millions of pounds made by the operation.
