As part of a police investigation looking into the DVD manufacturing operation, police raided Wembley-based commercial printer BDP (UK) in April 2009. 

Company director Ajay Singh Ahulawalia, 50, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture subject to trade mark and concealing criminal property on 21 March 2011. The company has since gone into administration.

Police estimate that at the height of its operation the gang was capable of generating £95,000 a day by reproducing up to 30,000 fake titles that were then sold on the streets of London.

Other gang members had developed a sophisticated distribution operation, couriering the burned DVDs across London to 15 "shops" in residential properties in Deptford, Lewisham and Camberley.

On 12 April, Mirza Amjad Beig, 45, from Hounslow, was found guilty of two counts of infringing copyright and one of conspiracy to distribute items.

Amin Zulfiqar, 28 from Feltham, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute articles infringing copyright.

The ringleaders of the gang, Prikshat Sharma, 27, and Rahul Divan, 35, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute counterfeit DVDs subject to trade mark in March this year.

Police confiscated a large-scale professional printing press, 440 DVD burners and 60,000 copied and packaged DVDs ready for distribution. Police also discovered 250,000 blank discs and 1m printed covers. 

The gang members are due to be sentenced on 21 June.

Kieron Sharp, Federation Against Copyright Theft director general, said: "This was a sophisticated criminal enterprise capable of producing millions of counterfeit DVDs and making substantial amounts of money for those running it."