The National Police has completed a macro operation that has been developed during the last three months in the towns of Benidorm and Dénia and in which 45 has been arrested for selling products allegedly counterfeit of brands of recognized prestige in different establishments and job positions. peddling. The agents have intervened near 200.000 effects, whose retail value in official stores would exceed the 4.000.000 euros.
The investigators of the National Police of Denia and Benidorm were aware of the possible sale to the consumer of products, apparently falsified, at very low prices that should correspond to articles of this type in legally authorized sales establishments.
The agents gathered information about the establishments and specific street vendors where they allegedly sold effects at prices of plum, this being the main claim for consumers to decide to buy this type of product.
Once the street vendors and establishments where supposedly counterfeit effects were sold, the agents contacted the representatives of the damaged brands to verify the falsity of the same, verifying how in these establishments they offered the consumer garments of clothing, clothing sports, watches, handbags, wallets, shoes ..., which were almost identical copy to the originals, highlighting the enormous similarity of both the finishes and the materials of manufacture.
Experts and experts representing the different brands harmed testified to the falseness of these products for lacking any of the different security measures that the originals present, as well as the mandatory labels of the said trademarks or the symbols of registered products that must carry , for which the agents established a police device aimed at arresting the alleged perpetrators and intervening in all allegedly counterfeit products.
The police deployments carried out by agents from Benidorm and Dénia were carried out in different establishments and street vendors in the towns of Benidorm, Dénia and Manises. The last of them took place on February 4 in Manises and were carried out jointly and coordinated by the investigators of the Judicial Police Brigades of Benidorm and Dénia, assisted by agents of the Prevention and Reaction Unit of both Police Stations.
As a result of the inspections, the agents and experts of the brands involved verified that people who ran the different establishments and stalls selling the street markets of those localities, lacked any type of invoice or delivery note that would prove the originality and origin of the product, as well as the purchase price, unable to demonstrate in this way the legality of transaction in the purchase sale of those products.
Among the products intervened include watches, lighters, bags, mobile phone accessories and electronics, batteries, wallets, shoes, clothing, sportswear .... The detainees, of Spanish, Chinese, Moroccan and Senegalese nationalities, were released after giving evidence in police stations, waiting for them to be summoned by the Judicial Authority that understands the case.
