Ebay scam couple to pay back thousands

A Holyport couple prosecuted last year by trading standards officers for selling counterfeit goods on ebay have now been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds made through their sales.

At Reading Crown Court on January 18, husband and wife Lucia Ferrazano and Steven Pygall were each ordered to pay nearly £19,000 within nine months or face nine months in prison, and still have to pay the money.

The confiscation order was made following the Royal Borough's first Proceeds of Crime Act (PCOA) investigation which looked into how much money the couple had made and resulted in the net value of their 'benefits of crime' being assessed.

The couple - now living in Taplow - were originally prosecuted in 2006 and convicted of conspiracy to defraud and other Trade Marks Act offences relating to the sale of counterfeit golf clubs, clothing, jewellery and other items on the online auction site.