Arabnews.com reported that counterfeit and adulterated goods worth SR 763 million were seized in 2012, an increase of 65.2 percent compared to the number of goods seized in the previous year, the Department of Customs director general announced.Salih Al-Khilaiwi, speaking at a press conference at the Ministry of Finance yesterday, said the Department of Customs is exerting strenuous efforts to ban entry of counterfeit and adulterated goods. Read Article
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Mercurynews.com reported that Xiang Li was proud of his growing business, his lawyer said. From his home in central China, he prowled the Internet for sophisticated stolen American industrial software — products retailing for an average of $181,000 — and resold them to black market buyers in 61 countries from 2008 to 2011. Read Article
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My issue with Amazon isn’t that the product was counterfeit – they had nothing to do with that part of it. My problem is the morass of red tape and awful customer service surrounding the return when the product is clearly counterfeit. I’ve offered to send them photos of the packaging so they can see [...]
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Martin Munoz Peralta, 40, of San Jose, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement and traffic in counterfeit labels and counterfeit documentation and packaging, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today. Read Article
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Millions of dollars in counterfeit Apple products have been seized in North Texas. The shipment originated in China and contained one specific item. “These were cell phone cases that were being imported into the Dallas area,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Yolanda Choates explained. Read Article
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James and Ruth Kauff already had a pair of the hottest tickets in town. But instead of celebrating the Miami Heat’s 104-98 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder during last week’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals, they ended up spending the night in jail. Miami Police say they arrested the Deerfield Beach couple for [...]
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The National Directorate of Anticorruption sent one Dutch and two Romanian citizens to trial for traffic of influence in the case of the counterfeit perfumes that entered the country in August 2009. The shipment came from China and was seized in the South Constanta Harbor. Read Article
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A RECENT raid on five optical shops in the heartland uncovered boxes of counterfeit coloured contact lenses of popular contact-lens brand Ciba Vision. More than 100 boxes of fraudulently labelled FreshLook ColourBlends lenses were seized by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in the middle of last month, in the first case where counterfeit contact lenses [...]
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Almost half of UK holidaymakers buy counterfeit goods when abroad, often after being duped into believing they were saving money on branded handbags, clothes and other items, according to a new report.Read Article
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Louis Vuitton has won the largest ever judgment in a trademark counterfeiting and copyright case in Canada, as a court punished firms importing designer fakes from China, the luxury bag maker said Wednesday. Read Article
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