Seizures and discoveries last week include the break up of the largest ever counterfeiting network in Spain yielding €500 million worth of fake goods… In the US, a series of raids has uncovered more than $650,000 worth of counterfeit designer merchandise… In the Philippines, the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group has seized P10 million ($200,000) worth of fake tyres and motorcycle spare parts… One million pirated CDs have been seized in a raid in Malaysia… Two raids in the UK and Ireland found assorted fake goods worth £80,000 and €40,000 respectively.

In Nigeria, 25 children have died after drinking counterfeit teething mixture contaminated with Diethylene Glycol.

Cases and outcomes last week include a man in the US, being sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of selling hundreds of thousands of counterfeit or adulterated medicines, including drugs for HIV/AIDS and schizophrenia… In the UK a man has been given three years imprisonment for illegally copying and selling pirated software and DVDs.

Policy developments last week include the French European Council Presidency removing the intellectual property aspects regarding internet copyright infringement from the new telecommunications legislation.