China Seize Fake World Cup Trophies

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China Seize Fake World Cup Trophies

Chinese success in qualifying for first ever World Cup finals has fuelled soccer craze across the country as well as attempts to profiteer from the high-profile tournament.

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Chinese success in qualifying for first ever World Cup finals has fuelled soccer craze across the country as well as attempts to profiteer from the high-profile tournament.

A special task force in Shenzhen, south of China, has seized in the storehouse of a company 60 forged World Cup trophies, 54 semi-finished ones along wth six sets of production moulds.

The seizures came after the FIFA, the soccer's world ruling body, commissioned a Hong Kong-based company to complain on Mondaywith the Shenzhen Quality Control Brigade, a watchdog against fakeor sham commodities in the marketplace.

Acting swiftly on the clues provided by the FIFA, the inspectors launched a raid upon a local company where they found 60 trophies with such letters "FIFA World Cup" and "Everlasting Memory of 2002 World Cup".

It is the first ever case in China involving fakes concerning the 2002 World Cup and the clampdown will spread to other big cities of the country.

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