In recent days, the financiers of the Lodi District Command, in implementation of an operational anti-counterfeiting apparatus, carried out three interventions in two commercial establishments in the Lodi district and one in Bandino, confiscating 850 pieces of counterfeit sportswear and paraphernalia. Discovery of a printing press used to copy distinctive marks on merchandise, and three officials are reported to the judiciary.
In particular, Fiamme Gialle of the Lodi Group first carried out two contextual interventions in several stores in Lodi and Sant’Angelo Ludigiano (Lodi) that sold branded clothing and gadgets attributed to well-known football teams, such as Inter, Juventus, Milan, Naples and Roma. In particular, 255 items of clothing and utensils bearing counterfeit trademarks were found, and consequently, seized, while the owners were reported to the Lodi Prosecutor’s Office with offenses of state introduction and trade in counterfeit products. Signs and receipt of stolen goods.
Among the seized goods, there were also children’s clothing and sets, such as underwear, shorts and bibs which, in addition to carrying the fake brand, lacked information on the composition, which leads to a potential health hazard.
Immediate developments and investigative investigations, aimed at disrupting the logistical, organizational and structural chain of the illicit supply chain, led the Army to identify the counterfeit printing business, a business in Pandino where the hallmarks were reproduced on clothing and gadgets. .
During the research conducted within the activity, in fact, in addition to 595 other products bearing imitation trademarks or ready to affix trademarks, two computers connected to the network were seized with several devices used for printing, which had in its memory the hallmarks of used football clubs in reproduction on the goods.
In the end, a subsequent inspection of the house of the owner of the printing house allowed the seizure of five professionally equipped machines
T-shirt printing, 3D printing, sublimation printing and hot stamping technologies are able to print brands with the same characteristics as the original models. Subsequently, the owner of the printing press was reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Cremona of the crime of forgery, alteration, use of trademarks, distinctive marks, patents, models and designs.
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