UK company charged with selling counterfeit Apple chargers and fined $140k
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What you need to know A UK company was found to be selling counterfeit Apple MacBook chargers. The company has been fined £100,000 after the chargers were found to be unsafe. The company says it had no idea they weren`t legit. Apple has warned about the safety implications of using fake chargers before but that normally relates to iPhones and iPads. One UK company has been supplying fake MacBook MagSafe chargers with testing proving they were unsafe – resulting in a £100,000 ($140,000) fine. As reported by the Bournemouth Echo, more than 1,400 items were CK IT Solutions Limited when trading standards officers raided the company`s base at Holes Bay Business Park. The move came after a shipment of 220 items had been held at East Midlands Airport in October 2018 over concerns that they might be fake. Further tests found that despite the company claiming they came from the same factory as Apple`s own chargers, the ones it was selling were not only counterfeit products but al...