Father and sons jailed for Britain’s biggest DVD scam

A FATHER and his two sons who used dozens of Chinese “slaves” to pull off Britain’s biggest DVD piracy scam were jailed for up to six years each.

Father and sons jailed for Britain’s biggest DVD scam

The “sophisticated” operation, which made up to £7 million (about €8.1m), hid behind a “veneer of respectability” as it imported cutting edge equipment from the far east.

Khalid Sheikh, 53, and sons Rafi, 26, and Sami, 28, used it to “burn” the latest box office hits like Ice Age 2, the Da Vinci Code and Iron Man to “the best industry standards possible”.

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