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Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud

Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud

From 2017 onwards, Rehan Ahmed styled himself as a savvy business owner. But behind the facade of a successful entrepreneur lurked one stark fact: his empire was built on fakery.

On Friday, the man behind the biggest-ever UK case of producing fraudulent vinyl, who sold counterfeit copies of records by some of the world’s biggest artists including Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Kendrick Lamar, was jailed.

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