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| Montoku and DVDs among RM217,000 contraband seized |
All |
| Customs personnel seized contraband and prohibited items worth more than RM217,000 in an Ops Merdeka crackdown which was launched on Sept 6. |
Malaysia |
9/25/2007 |
CIB-7-3373 |
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| China smashes hotel fake liquor racket |
Food & Beverage |
| Quality supervisors raided a hotel in far west China and made the biggest-ever seizure of fake maotai |
China |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3361 |
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| Nafdac Arrests 3 Fake Water Packagers |
Food & Beverage |
| Three people who engaged in illegal production of fake and poisonous water for injection drug in Onitsha Anambra State have been arrested by Regulatory Officer of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). |
Nigeria |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3367 |
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| Over 11,000 pirated Bollywood DVDs seized |
Movies |
| Over 11,000 pirated Bollywood movie DVDs were seized from two commercial consignments, Australian Customs department said. |
Australia |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3364 |
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| Taiwan police bust DVD-R burner lab |
Movies |
| On September 18, Taiwan's IPR Police, in collaboration with the Taiwan Foundation Against Copyrights Theft (TFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA), raided a pirated DVD rental shop in Kaoshiung City. |
Taiwan |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3371 |
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| Illegal DVDs seized |
Movies |
| TWO men and three woman pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit and pornographic DVDs and were sentenced at Harrow Magistrates' Court. |
UK |
9/26/2007 |
CIB-7-3378 |
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| 150 thousand counterfeit discs confiscated in Moscow |
Movies & Music |
| Economic watchdog executives of the Moscow Eastern administrative district Interior Department have stopped the operations of counterfeit product producers and distributors, having confiscated more than 150 thousand CD and DVD disks |
Russia |
9/26/2007 |
CIB-7-3383 |
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| Police seize 10,000 pirated DVDs, CDs |
Movies & Music |
| Police seized about 10,000 DVD movies and audio compact discs from a Northeastside restaurant in an on-going investigation into a counterfeiting operation. |
USA |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3370 |
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| The Casablanca grocery stores drug scandal |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Seizures of counterfeit products take place every day. But the seizure of 50,000 boxes of medicine (Aspro and effervescent Claradol) in a single haul in Casablanca, Morocco, reveals trafficking on an industrial scale. |
Morocco |
9/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3369 |
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