ROME, Sept 1, 2009 (AFP) - Italian police seized 589,000 pairs of fake luxury name glasses worth up to six million euros (8.6 million dollars) and two Chinese traders are under investigation, an official told AFP on Tuesday 1 September.

The glasses included 90,000 copies of Armani and Dolce & Gabbana products. The rest were glasses for children and adults which did not meet European Union standards, said the official from the Italian financial police.

Two Chinese are suspected of having imported from their home country. They are not yet under arrest however.

"The glasses were to have been sold in Milan and the surrounding region, but given the numbers involved they could have supplied markets and stores across Italy," the official said.

The counterfeit industry in Italy is worth 7.5 billion euros a year, according to the country's national federation of commerce.