Wednesday, 5. March 2003
Topic: - on March 5, 2003 at 1:06:13 PM CET
Conmen uncork vintage wine scam
Police arrested three young Romanian men and found 900 bottles of wine and champagne in a shed in a Paris suburb. They said the wine was destined to be sold on to restaurants at a comfortable profit.
Police said on Tuesday that the conmen donned suits to minimise suspicion as they replaced shop barcodes with barcode stickers of their own to fool supermarket checkout machines.
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