AFP
Jul 25, 2010
Italian police seize 800,000 fake watches
AFP
Jul 25, 2010
© 2010 AFP - Italian said Friday they had seized some 800,000 fake luxury watches worth 10 million euros (12.8 million dollars) in a shop run by five Chinese nationals in Tuscany.
The store in Prato, south of Bologna, transformed unfinished replicas of Dolce & Gabbana, Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe and Mont Blanc watches brought from China.
Police also seized real estate, a car, three computers and watch-making equipment, they said.
Tuscany has a large Chinese community. Some 30,000 Chinese live -- often illegally -- in the textile industry around Prato.
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