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7.6 Tons of Counterfeit Pokémon Cards Seized at Shanghai Pudong Airport

En route to the Netherlands.

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One of the biggest shipments of counterfeit Pokémon cards has just been seized at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport.

Arriving in 20 boxes from Qingdao, where the destination was somewhere in the Netherlands, there was a total of 7.6 tons of cards in total. From the clip, you can see a customs agent opening up a box of Pokémin TCG Vivid Voltage where it is revealed that the counterfeit cards are in the Spanish language.

In other gaming news, Ghost of Tsushima is coming to Fall Guys.

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