Pokémon cards have become, over the decades, real collector's items.

The first copies have continued to break value records in recent years.

In February, a “shiny” Charizard card from the 1st edition dating from 1999, the most coveted card, sold for more than 418,000 euros.

If recent cards, available in larger quantities and therefore much less rare, are of much less value, they still attract collectors and with them counterfeiters.

The black market for fake Pokémon cards is thus particularly active thanks to the still great popularity of pocket monsters.

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Shanghai Pudong Airport discovered this in a surprising way, when it came across nearly 7.6 tonnes of counterfeit Pokémon cards.

More than 20 boxes containing 400,000 packets of fake Pokémon cards were seized as they were about to be delivered to Holland.

This is not the first time that this type of seizure has occurred, but it has never been in such proportions until now.

The fake cards came from a company in Qingdao province, east China.

Customs officials told Yicai Global newspaper that they had had suspicions about the shipment because it was unmarked and had only simple abbreviations.

Certain abbreviations indicated in particular the letters "PK" instead of directly mentioning "Pokémon".

Lawsuits were launched against the company responsible for these counterfeits.

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  • Netherlands

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