Man fined €1k over selling fake Apple goods

A counterfeit Apple iPhone charger bought from a small shop in Cork exploded in the socket shortly after it was plugged in to charge the phone and yesterday the man who sold it was fined €1,000 for breaches of the Trade Marks Act.

Adranik Kazarian, aged 48, who runs the kiosk shop called The Phone Store at Paul St Shopping Centre in Cork pleaded not guilty to the two charges but was convicted after a trial that went on at length yesterday at Cork District Court.

Apple brought over one of its senior investigators specialising in intellectual property rights in the UK to testify that the charger in question and various other phone accessories were counterfeit.