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Counterfeit contracts to cover counterfeit products
The Financial Police has called a press conference to report to “the whole Country” the special outcome of recent anticounterfeiting actions : several national and international TV news programmes, including “TG1” at 8:00 pm (the most viewed news programme in Italy) and the Swiss TV, reported the conference.
The Financial Police encoded the case as “Operazione Pret-A-Porter”.
The case was peculiar because the infringers technique was to find orders pretending to be licensee of a famous fashion brand and showing consistent false license contracts, thus moving on the market as “official manufacturers and licensees” for …
The Financial Police seized 27.000 finished products and 14.000 components (such as labels, buttons…); it found also evidence of completed sales of many further products by the organization to retailers and wholesalers.
Fake products have been sold in Italy, United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and Cyprus, at least.
The Financial Police discovered that the organization hired 40 persons who worked “in the black” on the counterfeit products: this brought further attention on the case by the labor unions which declared yesterday night on TV that shall reconsider the problem of counterfeiting also from that standpoint.
Please find herebelow a press/video review on the action for good order of your file.
VIDEO
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIut5wcZyfY&feature=player_embedded
NEWSPAPERS AND ONLINE NEWS
- http://www.giornaledipuglia.com/2011/05/martina-franca-sequestrati-27mila-falsi.html
- http://www.quotidianodipuglia.it/articolo.php?id=148056