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The trial of five wine merchants and négociants from Bordeaux and the department of Charente began a few days ago in the Bordeaux court. According to the indictment, they are said to have bought hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine in Spain, labelled them as Bordeaux wines and resold the faked bottles.

According to information from the FranceBleu radio station, a Bordeaux-based producer and trader - according to the station's research, he is the owner of a château in the Médoc - bought the wines in Spain. "The wine was then transported to the south-west of France by a forwarder based in Charente," the FranceBleu report says. A wine broker had forged the transport documents on it so that the red wine produced south of the Pyrenees could show a French origin. Several thousand bottles of this wine received labels of renowned appellations like Saint-Emilion and Pomerol.

The French customs demand a fine of about four million dollars from the defendants. This amount is the alleged profit from the counterfeiting operation. The investigators suspect that hundreds of thousands of faked wine bottles were sold by the gang. As early as in 2021, police in Bordeaux discovered suspicious utensils indicating wine fraud during an operation to fight smuggling in the region. They included corks, bottles, customs stamps and false labels.

(uka / photo: 123rf)

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