French police have dismantled an international crime ring which produced copies of the luxury fashion house's bags, with several Hermès staff in on the act.
A dozen people were arrested by French police last Thursday as part of the dismantling of an international crime ring which produced fake Hermès bags. Two Hermès employees have been dismissed as a result of the probe, according to WWD back in June of this year, but the luxury goods company believes that current members of staff could also be involved.
It has come as no surprise to Delortae Agency, who have noticed a sharp increase in our own person inspection of an increasingly new breed of sophisticated counterfeits from the iconic brand house.
Starting prices for two of the brand's most iconic bags, the Kelly and the Birkin, start in the several thousand of pounds bracket and are often subject to lengthy waiting lists. Lindsey Lohan, Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham are celebrity collectors of the brand.
Police discovered a workshop filled with precious leather skins and estimated that one branch operated by the ring contained sales worth around €18 million (£14.5 million)."This operation concludes a one-year investigation following an Hermès complaint based on clues and abnormal behaviour identified through the house's internal monitoring systems," Hermès said in a statement.
The bust follows a ruling in April in which the Hermès was awarded approximately £63 million after winning their case against 34 counterfeit websites.
Hermès chief executive officer Patrick Thomas recently estimated that eighty per cent of objects sold on the internet under the Hermès name are fakes, a statistic he branded "an absolute disgrace".
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