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A 41-year-old man has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police following an alleged attempt to sell hundreds of thousands of pounds of counterfeit spirits at auction, in an operation ‘never seen on such a scale before’. A police raid of a residential address unearthed a ‘significant’ rare spirits collection, alongside a ‘sophisticated’ bottling operation that allegedly involved the refilling of hundreds of old bottles of whisky, rum and other spirits with cheaper liquids. The raid came after Whisky. Auction director Isabel Graham-Yooll noticed several bottles of fake whisky being submitted for auction among many genuine bottles, over a period of time. She became suspicious and arranged a visit to the property under the pretence of wishing to purchase bottles from the collection. |
