Multi-Million Dollar Counterfeit Vinyl Empire Targets Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift
Rihanna just dropped her R20 vinyl box set celebrating two decades in music, but while collectors line up to grab the limited-edition release, a massive counterfeit operation has been flooding the market with fake copies of her albums and records by some of the biggest names in the industry. A London-based criminal named Rehan Ahmed spent seven years running what became the UK’s largest fake vinyl manufacturing scheme, pressing thousands of bootleg records and selling them through eBay and Discogs to unsuspecting buyers who thought they were getting legitimate copies. When police raided his factory in February 2024, they found 15,000 counterfeit records worth roughly $1.3 million, along with production equipment scattered across three floors in a chaotic warehouse operation.
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