Counterfeit seizures

By at 11:18 pm Tuesday, Jan 11

Gieschen Consultancy tracks seizures of counterfeit goods: cigarettes, clothing, computer equipment, drugs, financial instruments, identification, etc. It's interesting to see the kinds of things people are knocking off.
Police today arrested a man from Transport Nagar area here for allegedly selling duplicate ball bearings under a known brand name.

French customs officials said Tuesday they had seized nearly 10,000 meters of fake Louis Vuitton monogrammed canvas, enough to make several thousand...

[C]ustoms authorities in Piraeus seized two containers containing some 800,000 packs of contraband cigarettes...

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