Kirmanj Kareem is one of the six people who appeared in court in Bradford on fraud charges in the past month SIX people have been summoned to court over the past month charged with fraud, ranging from selling fake cigarettes to stealing another person’s identity and even a charge of kidnap. Of the six defendants, two have pleaded guilty to their crimes, while two have pleaded not guilty to the alleged offences and a further two have not yet entered a plea at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates Court. One man, who faces jail for his offending, is
Kirmanj Kareem, who also uses the name Morad Omer Saleh, who admitted 13 offences of selling good with false trademarks and in illegal packaging, namely cigarettes.
Some of the packets of cigarettes were hidden in boxes of crisps within the store. But his defence solicitor told Magistrates that customers of the store were not being mislead into buying products they thought were legal - pointing out that if people bought cigarettes with foreign languages on the box they would likely realise they were not genuine. The charges Saleh pleaded guilty to included offering for sale goods bearing a false trademark and supplying a tobacco product not carrying health warnings. Aneeka Sarwar, prosecuting, said: “There was a degree of professionalism as the cigarettes were concealed in crisp packet boxes on the premises, and that cigarettes were found in a van and his home. This indicates a high degree of professionalism.”