Sparkhill market trader ordered to pay back £328,000 of illegal income

A BIRMINGHAM market trader who was jailed for selling counterfeit goods in 2009 has been ordered to pay back £328,000 of illegally earned income.

Sajid Hussain was jailed for 12 months after police found fake clothes and DVDs at a building at the back of his mother’s house.

Now the 38-year-old, from Sparkhill, has been ordered to pay back £328,000 at a Proceeds of Crime (POCA) hearing.

He failed to overturn the criminal conviction in 2009 or the POCA ruling at the Court of Appeal in front of three judges.

The dad-of-four has told the Mail that he is still fighting against the order.

Mr Hussain runs a shop at Small Heath Post Office and also has market stalls outside the Coventry Road business.

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