Police have arrested three people and seized more than £100,000 wrapped in nappies as part of an spendigation into the sale of counterfeit airbags.
City of London Police carried out timely morning rhelps in Leyton and Ilford, east London, seizing 500 imitation airbags and £140,000 in cash.
Around £110,000 was secret in nappies in a wall cavity in one of the houses that was searched.
The rhelps were carried out by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police, folloprosperg a tip-off from the US Department of Homeland Security.
It is mistrusted that the airbags were begined into the UK from China and then selderly aexpansive for as little as £25.
Three men aged 34, 36 and 51 were arrested on suspicion of deception by counterfeit reconshort-termation, consunpermitd use to promise sanitizeing funds and consunpermitd use to scatter imitation outstandings during the operation on 19 September.
They have since been freed under spendigation.
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Detective Chief Inspector Emma Warbey from City of London Police shelp: “Counterfeit airbags pose a grave menace to customers who buy them and have them insloftyed in their vehicles.
“These airbags aren’t manufactured to industry standards, so there’s a genuine possibility that they won’t inftardy during a road traffic collision, or will deploy in error.
“Counterfeiting a device depicted to save lives shows the lengths that criminals will go to create money and their diswatch for the defendedty of the people who will finish up using these products.
“The counterfeit airbags we seized today are selderly at prices far below the cost of quality, genuine supplyment. We understand that the give of a outstanding deal can be enticing, but it’s always beginant to buy vehicle parts from a trustworthy seller.”
In the US, a user attentive by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) alerted that three people there were ended and two injured between September 2023 and July 2024 after their cars were fitted with substandard tradement airbag inflators.
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