Police dismantled an online ring selling fake lubricants and banned sex toys in Thailand.

Officers stormed two warehouses on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, where they seized hundreds of counterfeit lubricant gels and illegal adult products on September 3.

More than 853 items, including advertising materials and products with expired medical device licences, were confiscated.

Consumer Protection Police said the raids on the storage facilities in Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani were conducted following complaints about counterfeit health and medical products being sold online.

Suspected ringleader Parin, 34, allegedly admitted the goods were his. He claimed he had partnered with a friend to run the operation after previously working in a sex toy business abroad.

Police Major General Pattanasak Bubphasuwan, commander of the Consumer Protection Police Division, said: ‘The act of selling counterfeit medical devices is considered an offence under the Medical Device Act, with a penalty of up to 10 years' imprisonment, a fine of up to one million baht, or both.

‘The sale of sex toys is an offence of selling obscene objects or items under Section 287 of the Criminal Code, with a penalty of up to three years' imprisonment, a fine of up to 60,000 baht, or both.'