A US court has charged a man, who ran 19 companies and at least 15 Amazon storefronts, 10 eBay storefronts, and multiple other entities that sold fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking devices worth $1 billion. A federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey charged Onur Aksoy aka Ron Aksoy, aka Dave Durden, 38, of Miami with running a massive operation over many years to traffic in fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking equipment with an estimated retail value of over $1 billion, as reported by the news agency IANS.

The accused imported tens of thousands of fake Cisco devices from China and Hong Kong and proceeded to resell them to customers in the US and overseas. He falsely claimed the products to be new and genuine. Allegedly the devices were typically older, lower-model products, some of which had been sold or discarded, which chinese counterfeiters then modified by adding counterfeited Cisco labels, stickers, boxes, documentation, packaging, and other material to appear to be genuine versions of new, enhanced, and more expensive Cisco devices the US Department of Justice said in a statement late on Friday, as reported by IANS