A pair of dodgy dealers has been asked to pay back more than £150,000 after being caught selling Chinese-made fakes over the internet.

KANN Trading Ltd, based in Gap Road, Wimbledon, was struck off the Companies House register in December 2011 after being prosecuted by Merton Council’s trading standards team.

Kingston Crown Court found Navaid Ahmad and Atif Mahmood guilty in June 2011 of selling counterfeit household goods from the website tvdeals.tv.

Mr Ahmad of Raymond Road, Wimbledon, and Mr Mahmood, from Woking, have both been disqualified for seven years from being company directors.

The company was raided after a costumer in Plymouth discovered he had bought a poorly made fake Paint Runner brand of paint roller.

Trading standards officers found 329 fake Paint Runners, alongside counterfeit pedicure sets, razor blades and broom vacuum cleaners.

The court heard how Ahmad and Mahmood imported the goods from China from manufacturers who made copies on demand.

Their suppliers had even asked for samples of the real thing to help them make the counterfeit goods.

The judge said the offences were "deliberate, dishonest acts calculated by two intelligent men and committed for one purpose only, namely to make a financial profit to the detriment of others."

Despite a previous prosecution by Merton Council for a similar offence in January 2009 - and warnings from the legitimate manufacturers - the two men had carried on selling fake goods.

In 2011 they were fined £5,000 and the directors received 12-month suspended prison sentences, 240 hours community service and a three-month curfew monitored by electronic tagging.

And at a final hearing on November 21, the court ordered Ahmad to pay £100,388 from his criminal activity within two months and pay £7,500 in costs.

Mahmood also had to pay £7,500 costs and was told that he should pay back proceeds of crime - £44,300 - within three months. Merton Council will receive £50,000 of the confiscation amount.

Ahmad and Mahmood were told they will be sent to prison for two years and 16 months respectively if they fail to comply with the order.

Merton Council's leader, Stephen Alambritis, said: “I would still urge residents to go after three quotes from different companies and look at recommendations from happy customers because there are some cowboys out there who are good with the patter.

“If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably it, especially in this day and age when margins are very tight for businesses.

“Despite the lack of resources, our trading standards officers’ standard of enforcement is still working hard and very well.”