Counterfeit Cartier has been discovered among bogus bling allegedly being sold by a Gold Coast jeweller for more than three times its value.<\/p>\n
A Burleigh Heads business has been accused of selling fake French luxury brands that also included Van Cleef & Arpels, sparking a police investigation.<\/p>\n
A 40-year-old man is set to face court after a joint task force searched the jewellery store on the popular tourist strip in December 2023.<\/p>\n
The man gave officers access to a safe that contained jewellery, gold bullion and a sum of cash, police said. Jewellery was seized after a search of the store, safe and business records could not determine its origins or legitimacy, police said.<\/p>\n
An investigation determined a number of counterfeit items were being presented for sale as genuine Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery, the Australian Federal Police said.<\/p>\n
“The alleged counterfeit jewellery items were listed for sale in the store with a total sale value in excess of AUS$100,000 (NZ$113,411),” a statement said.<\/p>\n
“An AFP valuation showed the true value of the jewellery to be about AUS$28,000 (NZ$31,700).”<\/p>\n
The man faces a maximum of five years in jail and a fine of more than AUS$180,000 (NZ$204,000) after being charged with a string of offences.<\/p>\n
“Selling counterfeit items and products is a deception and fraud that preys upon the goodwill and the back pocket of the customers involved,” Detective Superintendent Adrian Telfer said.<\/p>\n
“The AFP has a zero-tolerance approach to anyone allegedly committing an offence that seeks to gain an unfair financial advantage via illegal means.”<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old man is set to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on Monday after being charged with 22 counts of possessing or exposing for sale goods with false trademarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counterfeit Cartier has been discovered among bogus bling allegedly being sold by a Gold Coast jeweller for more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,67,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-89775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}