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ROME Jarrad Davis Color Rush Jersey , Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Italian law enforcement officials nabbed the perpetrator behind a plot that would have flooded markets with more than a quarter of a million bottles of counterfeit wine passed off as the product of one of Italy's most prestigious wine regions.
Despite averting near disaster with the recent bust in Montalcino, Tuscan wine officials say they are tightening controls to make a repeat event less likely while experts warn more problems could start to hurt the region's reputation as one of the world's top wine areas.
Police seized enough low-quality wine to fill as many as 290,000 bottles while it was ageing in barrels as if it were Brunello di Montalcino wine waiting to be bottled and shipped to market.
Police say the main culprit, a consultant in the region, had falsified certification in the region's wine database and had obtained fake labels for both Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino bottles Kerryon Johnson Color Rush Jersey , the region's secondary wine. Police called the near scam "the biggest fraud ever carried out in Italy's agricultural and food sector."
According to Fabrizio Bindocci, a wine maker in the region and president of the Brunello di Montalcino consortium, the body is setting up even stricter controls and more monitoring to prevent a repeat situation.
"We are taking every step we can to make sure than when the consumer opens a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino it will be the real thing every time," Bindocci told Xinhua.
It is not the first time the Tuscan wine region has had problems. In May, police confiscated more than 30 Frank Ragnow Color Rush Jersey ,000 bottles of counterfeit wine labeled as Brunello and other top Tuscan wines including Chianti, Chianti Classico, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Many of those wines were destined for foreign markets, including the United States and China.
In 2008 and 2009, more than 20 Tuscan wine makes were caught using unauthorized grapes and other "adulterated substances" in wine incorrectly labeled as Brunello.
According to Giulia Ceriani Lions Jake Rudock Jersey , president of Baba Consulting and a communications and sociology professor at the University of Siena -- the Tuscan city 40 km north of Montalcino -- the scandals represent a serious risk to the image of the privileged Brunello wine.
"These sorts of problems feed into unfortunate Italian stereotypes and they can snowball by being spread by word of mouth and hearsay," Ceriani said in an interview. "An image problem is the worst kind of problem for a top brand to have since so much of the value of the brand lies in the way it is seen."
Jason Wilson, a wine educator from Philadelphia, said he didn't believe the problems would have much of an impact on Tuscan wine imports to the United States.
"Following the scandals of 2008, what do you think sales of Brunello in the United States did in 2009? They rose 6 percent!" Wilson said in an interview. "The perception of Tuscan authenticity has never really mattered much for most American consumers. There's a profound Tuscan lust in the United States that won't be derailed by a scandal like this."
MOMBASA Lions Taylor Decker Jersey , Kenya, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police confirmed on Sunday that they are investigating a wanted terror suspect after being arrested in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Regional police commander Larry Kieng said a full report of Al-Shabaab trainee, Mustapha Juma Nassir, whose real name is Kahir Murit, will be released once investigations are completed.
"Anti-terrorism agents are holding the suspect. We believe he was planning terrorism attacks in the country Lions Da'Shawn Hand Jersey ," Kieng told Xinhua on Sunday.
The police boss said they intercepted communications between him and Al-Shabaab members from his mobile phone.
Kieng said two of his accomplices escaped when police raided their house and detectives are pursuing them.
Earlier in July, police released pictures of wanted terror suspects and placed millions of shillings in bounties on their head for planning a series of attacks across the country.
The suspects include Abdullahi Jarso Kotolo alias Seyfdeen, Hassan Jarso Kotolo, Hassan Abdalla Mushi and James Kimanthi Masai.
Others are Hamisi Swalleh Abdalla and Rama Mbwana Mbega alias Junia, who is said to be hiding in Boni Forest where the terror group has operational bases. Police reports say Seyfdeen is from Marsabit and has a senior position.
Among the suspects were two brothers Lions Tracy Walker Jersey , Salad Tari Gufu and Gufu Tari Gufu, who may have been involved in the recent abduction and shooting of Public Works PS Mariam El Maawy in Lamu.
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