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Davis, M. (2026, September 21). Vinyl forger netted profits to the tune of £2.7m from massive fake record stash. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rehan-ahmed-city-of-london-police-ariana-grande-ed-sheeran-taylor-swift-b1297793.html
Davis, Margaret. “Vinyl forger netted profits to the tune of £2.7m from massive fake record stash.” Evening Standard, 21 Sept. 2026, https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rehan-ahmed-city-of-london-police-ariana-grande-ed-sheeran-taylor-swift-b1297793.html.
Davis, Margaret. “Vinyl forger netted profits to the tune of £2.7m from massive fake record stash.” Evening Standard, September 21, 2026. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rehan-ahmed-city-of-london-police-ariana-grande-ed-sheeran-taylor-swift-b1297793.html.
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Rehan Ahmed, 40, from Cranleigh Gardens, Southall, west London, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Friday at Inner London Crown Court. Police discovered that Ahmed had been running a large-scale operation producing and selling counterfeit vinyl records for over seven years. The City of London Police seized 2,791 fake records by 108 different artists, along with 3,000 metal stampers and thousands of sleeves and center labels, totaling 18 tonnes of evidence. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) first detected the counterfeit operation through a test purchase from Ahmed's Phoenix of Vinyl warehouse in Acton. Detective Constable Daryl Fryatt emphasized that exploiting artists and the music industry for personal gain is illegal and will be pursued by law enforcement.
