Celebrated for their quality and diversity, French wines have also become the target of criminals. They are trafficked, just like drugs or weapons. Despite the surveillance of the brigades for the repression of banditry (BRB), the Central Office for the fight against itinerant crime (OCLDI), the Bordeaux research section of the Gironde group (GGD), the customs service, and of the nine national wine and spirits investigation brigades (BEVS) of the DGCCRF (General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control), some contraband channels continue to fall through the cracks, stealing, counterfeiting and exporting great wines abroad.
“The same thing happened to me as to Bernard Tapie
,” tells
Le Figaro
one of the greatest collectors of French wines, whose cellar is full of bottles that belonged to Napoleon I, the Tsars of Russia, Serge Gainsbourg or Claude Francois.
He
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