Pas-de-Calais customs officers dismantled two networks of counterfeit products at the beginning of December. A dismantling which led them to seize several hundred counterfeit products during home visits.
The customs brigades of Saint-Omer and Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) dismantled two networks of counterfeit products at the beginning of December, indicated the regional customs directorate of Dunkirk this Thursday, December 19 in a press release.
During home visits, customs officers seized “several hundred counterfeit perfume and clothing items, several kilos of tobacco, a rifle, and money from these illegal resales,” the press release specifies.
A three-year prison sentence incurred
In addition to the seized goods, customs officials established the volume of counterfeit products already sold. Those accused risk a sentence of three years in prison and a fine of one to two times the value of the authentic goods, recalls the regional customs directorate of Dunkirk.
In 2023, this authority seized more than 100 tonnes of tobacco, 540,000 counterfeit items, 30 firearms, 64 million euros of narcotics and more than 2.4 million euros in financial offenses originating from these traffic.
