It prospered in Vendée, Loire-Atlantique and in Deux-Sèvres.

A major smuggling and counterfeiting network has been dismantled in recent days, reports the gendarmerie.

After several months of investigation, four people were arrested last week, suspected of fueling this traffic which mainly involved clothing and tobacco.

"During the searches in the various homes and storage boxes, nearly 40,000 euros were seized, counterfeit clothes and shoes, around 1,300 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes and more than a hundred boxes of contraband tobacco", specifies the gendarmerie.

These goods came from the Paris region and Luxembourg.

The four implicated are summoned before the court of La Roche-sur-Yon, in November.

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Nantes: A seizure of 40,000 euros of counterfeit products from an individual

Seizure of 1,500 cartons of contraband cigarettes near Rennes

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