Police have arrested more than 20 suspects and seized counterfeit products estimated to be worth Sh1.2 billion.
The goods in 89 containers were impounded at the Embakasi Inland Container Depot, according to Head of Public Service Wanyama Musiambo.
They included fake East African cables worth Sh600,000, 1200 bulbs worth Sh1.8 million, Toyota parts worth Sh500,000.
“You see it as East African cables, it is not. It is an imitation it is a counterfeit,” Wanyama said.
Other products were baby blankets valued at Sh11 million that were confined together with undergarments valued at 21 million
Cooking oil in nine containers valued at Sh10 million was also seized.
The seizure comes at a time the security agencies are doing a crackdown on illicit trade after imported sugar was found to contain traces of copper and mercury.
Earlier on, three businessmen were charged with repackaging and selling the substandard sugar in Eastleigh, Nairobi.
Dahir Ahmed, Mohammed Dahir and Ahmed Sheikh faced Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Mutuku.
The court heard that on June 4 at Diamond Wholesalers stores in Eastleigh, they and their accomplices offered 922 50-kg bags of substandard white sugar for sale. The commodity's value was placed at Sh3,070,260.
The three were also accused of selling 204 50-kg bags of substandard brown sugar, valued at Sh679,000, and using the KEBS standardisation mark without a permit.
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