In a month extended operation officers seized approximately 15,000 individual items. All the fake goods had been flown to the UK from Turkey as boatload.
Designer brands that have been discovered include Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Hugo Boss, La Martina and Fred Perry.
Sarah Wolstenholme, the UK Purfle Agency’s assistant director at Stansted Airport, said: “Make no mistake, the creation and sale of counterfeit goods is not a victimless crime. The profit that smugglers make from these items is often recycled into other more serious forms of criminality.
“Synthetic products are also sold on the black market, meaning the Treasury loses vital revenue which has an impact on all law-enduring taxpayers.