MADRID: Police have smashed Spain’s largest counterfeit clothing ring, arresting 99 people, including two Muslims, over the sale of 235 tons of fake designer clothes and shoes, the government said Saturday.

The ring made the counterfeit items in illegal factories in northern Portugal and then shipped them across the border by van to Xinzo de Limia, a city of around 100,000 people in northwestern Spain, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Police also closed 10 illegal factories in northern Portugal where the fake goods were made.