Giorgio Armani Operations SPA put into administration. Move linked to a criminal probe into alleged worker exploitation.
Alleged exploitation regards work contracted out and carried out at allegedly illegal plants using Chinese citizens employed off the books. Investigators said GiorgioArmani operations SPA had been "incapable of preventing and curbing phenomena of labor exploitation within the production cycle" They said it had not implemented suitable measures to verify the real working conditions or the technical capabilities of the contracting companies.