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Soccer-Euro-Swiss police nabbed in T-shirt blunder

ZURICH, June 3 - Police officers in Geneva who
unwittingly commissioned hundreds of counterfeit T-shirts and
caps carrying the official Euro 2008 logo have been found out by
their own special anti-fraud unit set up for the tournament.

Officers had 500 shirts and 250 caps made with the Geneva
police and Euro 2008 logos, with the order worth around 10,000
Swiss francs (6,200 euros), Geneva police spokesman
Jean-Philippe Brandt said on Tuesday.

However, when colleagues from the anti-fraud unit
investigated the company that made them they found it did not
have permission from organisers UEFA to use the tournament logo
as it had claimed, he added.

Police immediately stopped selling the items to the public
and are waiting for a decision from UEFA before deciding what to
do with them, Brandt said.

"We might just give them away at a sports event we are
planning in September," he said.

The tournament being co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland
gets underway on Saturday and ends on June 29.
(Reporting by Iain Rogers, editing by Trevor Huggins)

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