Man Gets Six Years for Forging Rolex Watches

By JCK Online Staff -- JCK Online, 3/17/2009 12:22:00 PM

A federal court on March 11 sentenced a suburban Philadelphia man to six years in federal prison for fabricating fake Rolex watches, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, John Padova, also ordered Binh Cam Tran, 52, to repay more than $2.27 million to Rolex Co.

Tran admitted to IRS agents and postal inspectors that he fabricated hundreds of thousands of fake Rolex watches in a factory inside his Elkins Park, Pa., home.

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