Have seized more than 250 counterfeit items, as well as sophisticated tools for developing illicit activity
Counterfeit products are sold in weekly markets
The Guardia Civil of the Region of Murcia, within the established services to prosecute and prevent crimes against industrial property, developed the 'YAKIMA' operation that has led to the arrest of a person in Eagles who allegedly ran a workshop clandestine counterfeit clothing and footwear prestigious brands.
The record made, investigators have seized more than 250 counterfeit products as well as sophisticated tools for developing the enlightened criminal activity as a dozen plates and molds, logos of prestigious brands and computers.
The investigation was initiated under the Meritorious services set to prosecute and prevent crimes against industrial property, when prevention agents found that public safety through a property of Eagle, could be developing and distributing counterfeit product.
The investigations performed allowed the civil guards find out the location of the property and the identity of the person who could be behind the authorship of the crimes under investigation.
Once obtained all necessary evidence was conducted entering and searching in the sweatshop, where more than 250 items of suspected counterfeit prestigious brands and all instruments used to manufacture seized imitations, as a dozen molds and plates pattern logos and computers, so we proceeded to the arrest of an individual, Spanish and 31, on suspicion of offense against intellectual property.
The investigation shows that the arrested now developed a large volume of counterfeit textiles both as footwear that subsequently marketed illegally and were distributed in street markets in different towns of the region.
Source: Ministerio del Interior