SINGAPORE, July 6 -- A Singapore-based Instagram seller who marketed counterfeit Louis Vuitton products as authentic and ignored a lawsuit has been ordered to pay the luxury fashion house S$200,000 (RM662,500) in damages for trademark infringement.

The Straits Times reported today that Ng Hoe Seng, who operated through the Instagram accounts "emcase_sg" and "emcrafts_sg", sold fake phone cases, passport covers, card holders and purses at a fraction of the price of genuine Louis Vuitton goods.

For example, a counterfeit passport cover was priced at S$159 - compared to the authentic version, which retails for between S$560 and S$945.

Louis Vuitton Malletier (LVM) discovered the counterfeit operation in July 2022 and conducted a sting, bu...