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A plaque attributed it to the master luthier Leone Sanavia (value up to 60 thousand euros), while the instrument was worth just over 2 thousand and was manufactured in Eastern Europe
He was entering Italy with a counterfeit viola and for this a citizen was fined and the musical instrument seized. It happened in recent days at the Great Saint Bernard Tunnel.
He tries to enter Italy with a counterfeit viola
The discovery occurred as part of strengthened border controls with Switzerland on the occasion of Watches and Wonders 2024 in Geneva. The fair concerns the watch and jewelery sector.
The activity of the Customs Agency and the Financial Police was aimed at combating smuggling, counterfeiting and illicit trafficking of currency and metals.
The Italian citizen was traveling with a viola. A plaque attributed it to the master luthier Leo Sanavia. The original instruments of Leo Sanavia (died in 2004) have a market value of up to 60 thousand euros.
The copy – the Customs Agency hypothesizes – is of Romanian or Bohemian-Hungarian manufacture. Its value does not exceed 2 thousand euros.
The man was thus sanctioned. The musical instrument, however, was seized.
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