The two responsible are arrested in Barcelona

Two of the cloned brands themselves filed a complaint after verifying the sale of counterfeits through various web pages

In little more than a year of commercial activity they recorded revenues of more than one and a half million euros

Parallel to the practice of entries and registrations, 13 bank accounts, six accounts of a payment platform and six web pages have been blocked and their profiles have been eliminated in the most important social networks

The copies were of high quality, which added to the high sale price of the products, led users to think that they were acquiring official products

Agents of the National Police have dismantled a network of distribution of counterfeit high-quality sports shoes. Two of the cloned brands themselves filed a complaint with the National Police, upon verifying the sale of counterfeits of their products through various web pages. The two responsible for the plot have been arrested in Barcelona, ​​13 bank accounts have been blocked, six accounts of a payment platform and six web pages and their profiles have been eliminated in the most important social networks. It should be noted that the copies were of high quality, which, added to the high sale price of the products, led users to think that they were acquiring official items from leading brands.

The investigation began after a complaint by the legal representatives of two international sportswear brands, whose managers noticed the sale, through different Internet pages, of shoes that appeared to be the original models of their companies.

Millionaire income in one year of activity

The investigations carried out made it possible to identify the two people responsible for the illegal activity, who had gradually created a network of web pages through which they offered sports shoes from various brands of international prestige and marketed them at a price similar to that of market, which added to the high quality of the confection of the counterfeits allowed them to obtain a large volume of clients both in Spain and outside our country. So much so, that it is estimated that in little more than a year of commercial activity, they registered revenues of more than one and a half million euros in Spanish bank accounts, without ruling out a greater volume of profits that could have been deposited in different foreign online payment platforms.

With the intention of hindering the investigations and giving the illegal business an appearance of legality, those investigated had founded two companies in Barcelona, ​​whose corporate purpose was retail trade over the Internet, thus giving greater credibility to the originality of the products offered and laundering the illegal origin of their income.

They avoided storing the merchandise thanks to the dropshipping method

The counterfeit items were purchased directly from suppliers located in China, merchandise that they later offered in their online stores but without the need to store it, since they used the distribution model called dropshipping, consisting of the products being sent directly from the factory to the end customer without the need to go through the custody of those investigated. This distribution model was very beneficial for those investigated since in this way they did not need to have a place to store their products.

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