An investigation by the Public Protection Partnership (PPP) found R'Ellite Rainments Ltd and company director Mr Rajhumar Karuppiah Rajan was selling items branded with trademarks including Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Levi. Confiscation orders were given to the company and Mr Rajan from Church Gate, Thatcham, at a court hearing in Reading on October 2. These totalled to £267,544.
85. R'Ellite Rainments Ltd was fined £28,000 separately, and the two defendants were also ordered to pay £28,000 towards prosecution costs. Mr Rajan, 41, was sentenced at an earlier hearing on October 4, 2023, to 14 months imprisonment and was suspended for 18 months.
This included 150 hours of unpaid work requirement and 40 days of Rehabilitation Activity Requirement. Himself and R'Ellite Rainments Ltd entered guilty pleas to seven offences under the Trade Marks Act..
. Ruth Lucas.
