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Indictment for Mechanic Who Made $1.4 Million Selling Fake Airbags

By DAILY MAIL

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Igor Borodin has pleaded guilty to buying fake airbags from China and selling them on eBay

October 23, 2012 Updated Oct 23, 2012 at 10:16 AM PDT

A car mechanic has pleaded guilty to trafficking thousands of counterfeit airbags in deals that made him more than $1.4 million dollars in a year.

Igor Borodin, who co-owns an auto shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly bought an estimated 7,000 fake airbags from China and sold them on eBay between February 2011 and May 2012.

One of the airbags sold by Borodin through eBay was independently tested and failed to inflate properly, court records showed, the Charlotte Observer reported.

The plea comes just two weeks after the U.S. government warned that 'tens of thousands' of drivers who have had airbags replaced in the last three years could be affected by this sort of scheme.

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