In a city like Naples, where local ingenuity often borders on legality, the Guardia di Finanza (Fiamme Gialle) has struck a textbook blow against the thriving counterfeit market, seizing a warehouse containing over 40.000 counterfeit items that, if sold to consumers, could have fetched more than €1 million.
Two young men from the province, both in their thirties, got into trouble for counterfeiting and receiving stolen goods, discovered while trafficking packages in an underground location in Orta di Atella.
The Raid of the Finance Police
Units of the Frattamaggiore Group, always on the lookout for crooks in the underground economy, nabbed the two suspects as they were moving suspiciously, loading and unloading packages in a basement that concealed a veritable treasure trove of counterfeit products.
It might interest you
Between perfumes, cosmetics, accessories, clothing and hi-tech gadgets, the haul was so vast that it seemed like a parallel supermarket, with obviously second-rate packaging and QR codes that led nowhere.
The "Depot of Fake" Exposed
What the finance police have labeled a fake warehouse—a hiding place that, with its shoddy packaging and cheap imitations, represents yet another slap in the face to the original brands—could have flooded the online market and the streets, lining the pockets of those who exploit current trends to deceive unsuspecting consumers.
Comments (1)
It's incredible how in Naples so many illicit activities can be done. But if the financiers had not intervened, who knows how many fake products would have reached consumers. Of course, young people must find honest work.