Police raided warehouses storing fake perfumes worth more than 100,000 GBP in Thailand.

Officers stormed five locations across Bangkok and seized 34,800 bottles of counterfeit luxury scents and other bogus cosmetic products on May 1.

Officials said the unlabelled perfumes were worth an estimated 4.4 million baht and were set to be repackaged into branded boxes including Louis Vuitton, Coco Chanel, Burberry Hero, and Yves Saint Laurent.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Thanthawat Anurakniyom, senior inspector at the Consumer Protection Police Division, said the operation stemmed from a previous case in which a Thai seller was arrested for selling fake perfumes in March.

The Thai man implicated a Chinese national as the supplier of the low-quality goods, sparking the series of raids.

The senior inspector said: 'Further investigations found that the network was led by a Chinese investor who used a Cambodian mule account to receive money from illegal sales.

'An investigation found the Cambodian account owner was outside the country.

'The network was able to convincingly imitate the real product packaging, but the products inside were of poor quality. They focused on selling and distributing products in large quantities so that Thai traders could resell them through various channels, both online and in general stores.

'Many consumers were affected because the counterfeit products were distributed widely. The suspects have been doing this for around three years.'

Officials said the Thai suspect was charged for 'selling unregistered cosmetic products' which is punishable with a fine of up to 20,000 baht (460 GBP), and 'selling cosmetic products without Thai language labels and without permission' which carries a prison term of up to three months, a 30,000 baht (690 GBP) fine, or both.

(1 GBP = 43.62 THB)