In what the deputy commander of the customs and excise office called one of the most significant catches of counterfeit goods in Hungary this year, counterfeit sports shoes worth over €1.8 million were discovered in two Latvian tractor trailers at the Rajka border crossing station on August 5, mno.hu reports. Zsolt Szabó said that while the papers indicated the 26,000 pairs of branded shoes were on their way from Slovakia to Italy and were made in Vietnam, an inspection revealed they were counterfeits. The drivers have not been taken into custody but their role is being investigated.
In other news about sports shoes with questionable origins, two Serbian tractor trailers loaded with shoes and clothing caught fire at the Kőbányai út Chinese market on August 8. According to inforadio.hu, firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, and it is being investigated whether the trucks were set on fire on purpose and whether they went up in flames at the same time or the fire spread from one to the other.
