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Fizzled out: French winemaker risks prison over champagne fraud
Fizzled out: French winemaker risks prison over champagne fraud
Economy
by  AFP

Prosecutors in eastern France on Wednesday requested a winemaker accused of producing and selling fake champagne in an elaborate scam be sentenced to four years in prison, with three years of the term suspended. The winemaker from the Aisne region produced and sold hundreds of thousands of fake champagne bottles for a year, between 2022 and 2023.