Stacks of boxes of fake sneakers worth approximately thirty million dollars were almost touching the ceilings of warehouses, where they were discovered by a joint police operation leaving two people in custody.
Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch, Victor Barrett says many of these shoes would have ended up in stores for persons to purchase at usually the same price of the original item.
The sanctions for a crime such as this could result in the offender being charged at one million dollars or one year in prison and all the items being destroyed.
Barrett says consumers also have a protection act where perpetrators can be charged for deceptive conduct police say the first bust for the year was valued at twenty million dollars.
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