Over the past month, the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza in Naples, as part of its operations to combat counterfeiting and illegal trade in the city of Naples and its province, discovered two premises equipped for the production of counterfeit clothing bearing the Napoli Calcio logo, two warehouses, and over 90 pieces of machinery (heat presses, heat guns, sewing machines), looms, and work tools.
55 people responsible have been reported to the Judicial Authority, in various capacities, for commercial fraud, counterfeiting and receiving stolen goods. Over 35.000 items have been seized, including T-shirts, flags, gadgets, and over 4.000 meters of fabric reproducing the Calcio Napoli brand fabric (to be used to "decorate" the city streets), ready for marketing.
35 fake Napoli football articles seized
Among the various interventions, the Green Berets of the Naples Emergency Employment Group seized a total of over 20.000 gadgets and items of clothing in the metropolitan area of Naples ( Ponticelli, Poggioreale, Scampia and Forcella districts ), where domestic factories and warehouses of illicit material were hidden, as well as in the municipalities of Ottaviano and Casoria (reporting, in the latter municipality, a Chinese man for counterfeiting and receiving stolen goods).
The same financial police of the “Pronto Impiego” seized, last April 17, hundreds of counterfeit products at the entrance to the Vesuvius National Park, reporting a Neapolitan individual: the t-shirts and flags were offered for sale to the numerous tourists who crowd the attraction of great geological, biological and historical interest.
Also on the evening of April 18, in the vicinity of the Maradona Stadium, the Green Berets identified about a hundred items including flags, shirts and scarves, all with the SSCN brand, reporting to the AG a person responsible for counterfeiting and receiving stolen goods.
During two operations, officers from the 2nd Naples Group seized approximately 3.700 counterfeit items, one inside the port of Naples and the other on Via Galileo Ferraris. Specifically, inside a wholesale business owned by a Chinese citizen, they found merchandise bearing false logos and trademarks attributable to SSC Napoli, sealing approximately 3.400 illegally held items. An additional 250 items were seized from an Italian citizen, who was reported at large, inside the port area near the embarkation point for the island of Ischia.
Approximately 2.500 items including T-shirts, flags, key rings and car air fresheners were seized by the 2nd Metropolitan Operations Unit of Naples, between the Pianura, Montecalvario and Secondigliano districts, where, inside a premises, machinery and textile equipment suitable for manufacturing counterfeit goods were found, reporting 5 individuals.
Lastly, the military of the Portici Company seized over 500 gadgets and 2.000 cellophane bags bearing the Napoli Calcio logo, reporting 4 individuals.
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