ITALIAN CRIME FIGHTERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST FAKE FASHION GOODS
January 1st, 2011
BY JOSEPHINE MCKENNA, in Rome
ON the face of it the record is impressive. In the past 12 months Italian customs officials and other agents have carried out raids on counterfeiters from Milan in the north to Taranto in the south, seizing millions of euros' worth fake fashion merchandise.
This January 23, customs agents joined officials from the Guardia di Finanza, the government agency charged with fighting fraud and smuggling, in a swoop on the Adriatic port of Ancona that netted fake designer handbags, wallets and shoes with a street value of around Euro
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