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| Counterfeit goods worth £2.5m seized in market raid |
Assorted |
| Police have seized suspected counterfeit goods worth £2.5 million in a massive raid on Glasgow’s world-famous Barras market |
UK |
10/26/2009 |
CIB-9-0538 |
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| Police rounds up pirated books |
Books |
| Turkish police over the weekend confiscated 1 million copies of pirated books, which are valued at 10 million Turkish Liras in total, during simultaneous raids on business fronts that illegally publish books. |
Turkey |
10/19/2009 |
CIB-9-0521 |
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| $100,000 in counterfeit clothes seized in Newport News |
Clothing |
| Police seized more than $100,000 worth of counterfeit merchandise from a store at 3311 Jefferson Ave. |
USA |
10/29/2009 |
CIB-9-0542 |
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| Hanoi police seize ton of illegal cosmetics |
Cosmetics |
| Police in Hanoi said they seized around one ton (907 kg) of smuggled cosmetics worth VND500 million during a raid on four shops in the city last week. |
Vietnam |
10/26/2009 |
CIB-9-0539 |
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| Moscow Police Seize 200,000 Pirated DVDs |
Movies |
| More than 200,000 counterfeit DVDs, worth more than 40 million rubles (USD 1.3 million, EUR 900,000) have recently been confiscated in a three-week operation targeting Moscow’s markets. |
Russia |
10/21/2009 |
CIB-9-0523 |
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| Customs Seizes Fifty Pounds Of Counterfeit Viagra |
Pharmaceuticals |
| A shipment believed to contain 21,600 Viagra pills turned out to be counterfeit, U.S. Customs & Border Protection officials said. |
USA |
10/23/2009 |
CIB-9-0533 |
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| CBP Seizes 3 Million Pieces of Counterfeit Party Supplies |
Recreational goods |
| On October 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced the seizure of more than 3.4 million pieces of party supplies with counterfeit trademarks. |
USA |
10/21/2009 |
CIB-9-0528 |
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| Autodesk seizes AED 1 million worth of pirated software in Abu Dhabi |
Software |
| Crackdown on illegal software in line with company’s aims to slash number of intellectual property rights violations in the country |
UAE |
10/20/2009 |
CIB-9-0520 |
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| Huge cigarette bust in Austria |
Tobacco |
| Austrian customs authorities seized 364 000 packets of cigarettes after stopping and searching a Greek registered truck close to the German border |
Austria |
10/19/2009 |
CIB-9-0516 |
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| Irish customs seize 120 million fake cigarettes: EU |
Tobacco |
| Irish authorities have seized more than 120 million counterfeit cigarettes, the European Union's anti-fraud office said on Wednesday. |
Ireland |
10/28/2009 |
CIB-9-0541 |
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| Customs bust counterfeit cigarettes smuggling racket |
Tobacco |
| A massive haul of illicit cigarettes, more than five million sticks in quantity worth over Rs. 36 million was taken into custody during the last three months by the Sri Lanka Customs. |
Sri Lanka |
10/22/2009 |
CIB-9-0527 |
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| Four million fake ciggies discovered in toy crate |
Tobacco |
| CUSTOMS officers have uncovered four million counterfeit cigarettes in a crate of toys at Cardiff Docks. |
UK |
10/23/2009 |
CIB-9-0530 |
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