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China blamed for fake goods seized in Italy
by Staff Writers
Rome (AFP) Aug 25, 2012


Italy's police said Saturday they have seized so far this year 52 million counterfeit items, including train tickets, smartphones, condoms and detergents, with much of them coming from China.

The financial police's counter-fraud division said 97 members of organised criminal gangs, 41 percent of them Italian, were arrested during the same first seven months of 2012 in connection with the counterfeit goods.

A statement said that 35 daily monitoring operations helped deprive the underground economy of some two million euros (2.5 million dollars) of illicit revenue per day.

It said two million counterfeit train tickets worth 14 euros apiece (17.5 dollars) for the trip from Termini station to Fiumicino airport in Rome were made in China, along with 100,000 condoms and one million toys.

In Fiumicino, the authorities dismantled a gang that imported through various ports in northern Europe fake Ray Ban sunglasses as well as Nike and Adidas shoes. Seven Chinese living in Rome were arrested, the police said.

In the Sicilian port of Palermo, the authorities seized 9,000 boxes of brand name detergent that contained completely ineffective powder.

In the northern city of Salo, police confiscated fake Apple, HTC and Nokia smartphones that were sold via the Internet.

In Venice, a classic distribution scheme of fake Rolex, Philippe and Cartier watches was discovered at the height of the tourist season.

Fake Hogan sports shoes produced in underground factories were being exported from Naples and the port close to Caserta.

Police in Florence obtained "impressive" results on Italian-Chinese counterfeiting gangs, the statement said. They identified 155 illegal operators who conducted some 242,000 illegal money transfers using 58 aliases.

Since 2010, the same operation has led to the discovery of money transfers to China totalling 4.5 billion euros (5.6 billion dollars), the implication of 581 suspects, including 24 who were arrested, and the seizure of 207 firms, 283 properties and 471 cars.

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Suspected Chinese criminals return from Angola: state media
Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2012 - Three dozen Chinese suspected of criminal acts against compatriots in Angola arrived in Beijing on Saturday under police guard as China targets crimes by its nationals overseas, state media reported.

The 37 people are suspected of involvement in kidnapping, robbery, blackmail, human trafficking and forced prostitution, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Public Security as saying.

Their alleged victims also returned home on the same flight, Xinhua said.

China's CCTV television showed the suspects, handcuffed and their faces largely covered by hoods, being led off a jet at Beijing's airport and taken away in waiting buses.

Special police teams dispatched to Angola busted 12 criminal organizations and a total of 48 cases in cooperation with police in the West African country, Xinhua said. A total of 14 victims were rescued, it said.

The operation marked the first time that Chinese police had carried out a large-scale operation of that nature in Africa, Xinhua said.

It quoted Liu Ancheng, head of the ministry's criminal division, as lauding cooperation between police in the two countries.

Some of the suspected crimes were brutal in nature, Xinhua reported, citing allegations that to extract ransoms some victims had gasoline poured on them before being burned and some were buried alive.

China's presence in Africa has boomed over the past 15 years as it has sought to tap into the region's vast natural resources.

China became Africa's largest trading partner in 2009 and Beijing said last month it would offer $20 billion in new loans to the continent.



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