Spanish police have busted a criminal organisation which falsified top quality wines, selling bottles for as much as 1,900 euros when they were only worth a pittance! Four people have so far been detained and another four are being investigated for belonging to a criminal organisation, contravening industrial property and crimes against public health, money laundering and fraud. Six raids were carried out in Madrid, A Coruña and Málaga, three in private homes and the other three in commercial premises, including a warehouse and restaurant. Police found numerous effects and documents related to the investigation, including 1,600 falsified labels of different brands, 28 bottles of falsified wine, stamps, corks, multi-tools, die-cutter, molds and metal plates, labels, wooden packaging boxes in the name of one of the defrauded companies, as well as various computer equipment and printers. It is believed more than 1,500 false bottles of wine from different brands were sold since 2014, estimating that the group has been able to obtain a benefit of more than 1.5 million of euros. The investigation began last October following a complaint filed in the town of Navalcarnero (Madrid), by the head of a prestigious wine company which expressed their suspicions about the sale of false bottles of their brand through a website. The gang acquired wine with similar properties and of the same denomination of origin but at a much more economic price. Subsequently, they were packaged in bottles with similar characteristics. Also, they bought corks and plugs similar to those of the brands and screened them with a home-made machine that they designed to stamp the logos and anagrams.
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