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Police halt production of counterfeit shoes and bags

05.06.2015, 19:42
An Armenian police unit in charge of combating organized crime has halted the operation of an illegal workshop in Yerevan that was producing counterfeit footwear and leather goods of famous world brands.

Police halt production of counterfeit shoes and bags
YEREVAN, June 5. / ARKA /. An Armenian police unit in charge of combating organized crime has halted the operation of an illegal workshop in Yerevan that was producing counterfeit footwear and leather goods of famous world brands.

According to a police  statement,  they found counterfeit branded shoes and leather bags marked ‘Brioni" Stefano Ricci,"" Zili" and others  in a trade center pavilion in Yerevan owned by Carlo Comberzi LLC and in an illegally running workshop at Tychina street.

Overall, the police found 103 pairs of shoes and three leather jackets in the pavilion owned by a Vagharshak Muradyan.  It turned out that he set up production in August 2013 without the permission of trademarks rights holders. 

He neither ran books to record the commercial activity.  The damage was assessed to be 12 million drams (about $26,000). -0-