Italian police seize 800,000 fake watches

Italian police said yesterday they had seized some 800,000 fake luxury watches worth €10 million 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,...

Italian police said yesterday they had seized some 800,000 fake luxury watches worth €10 million 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.

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