Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China
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The consoles, which did not meet European technical and safety standards, were imported from China to be sold in stores or online.
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Italy’s financial police said on Friday they have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles from China containing some of the most popular titles of the 1980s and 90s.

“Around 12,000 consoles on which more than 47 million pirated video games were illegally stored were seized, for an estimated value of more than €47.5 million (US$52.5 million),” Alessandro Langella, head of the economic crime unit for Turin’s financial police, told AFP.

The figure includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programmes.