Category: New This Week

Two men were jailed for their activity in a wine investment scam. Abu Hanifa and Onur Kemal Aslan are the most recent criminals to be charged for stealing investment money from unsuspecting collectors without ever receiving wines for their money. Read more about it here.

The end of May and beginning of June brought a deluge of images and content regarding Latour and a few other producers. We added over 60 galleries of new photos of authentic and counterfeit examples of bottles and ink in new vintages. An additional story was added regarding the authentic…

Crime rings are turning away from drugs and weapons for food and wine frauds, as they are lucrative with a low chance of risk. With estimates of 50% of counterfeit wines in China, wine producers, especially in Australia, are frightened for their brands. Read more about it

Chinese website Alibaba sued a maker of fake liquor for 123,000. Alibaba has actively pursuing these counterfeiters to protect the authentic products on their sites. Read more about it here.

Aleksandr Iugov was sentenced to four years in prison for selling $2Million worth of fake DRC Romanee-Conti from 2012 to 2014. Read more about it here.

Interpol and Europol have found fake food and alcohol worth £230 Million. This includes 26.4 million litres of counterfeit alcohol. Sixty-one countries were involved from December through March. Read more about it here.

Eight countries have signed up to share information and technical information regarding wine counterfeiting. The countries include Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Georgia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US. Read more about it here.

In the first week of May, we have been very busy hosting our London Wine Fraud and Counterfeiting Presentation and Authentication Training Level I and II. We have also added many new galleries of authentic and counterfeit ink and bottles. In addition, we have added new news stories from around…

Counterfeit Tignanello were found, and some great examples of authentic versus counterfeit. Read more about it here.