5 Million Baht seizure of fake branded items at two Pattaya Shopping Malls

PATTAYA:--Prompted by recommendations that Thailand be placed on a “Watch List” for 2013 by the US Government in relation to the production and sale of counterfeit items, the Thai Government has declared that 2013 is the “Year of IP Protection” and the Police are now working tirelessly to clear Pattaya of those involved in Intellectual Property Violations.

On Wednesday Night a team of officers from Pattaya Police and the Police Region 2 Intellectual Property Protection Unit conducted raids on two popular Shopping Malls, which the Police have decided not to name.
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-- Pattaya One 2013-02-23

Looks like a couple of people at Mike's Shopping Mall didnt pay their monthly fees to the police !!!

Luckily today business as usual :-)

I guess that's the end of visits by Lady Gaga then

Culling the competition for the real players. Everything is about payoffs and protection.

Its just a drop in the ocean! And for public cosumption! Does not mean anything in the real world.

What fakes in Pattaya? i will have to tell the wife to check her "mullberry" handbags

What fakes in Pattaya? i will have to tell the wife to check her "mullberry" handbags

If they're spelt "mullberry", they're definitely fake.

What fakes in Pattaya? i will have to tell the wife to check her "mullberry" handbags

If they're spelt "mullberry", they're definitely fake.

Sorry ,i just pay for the bloody things ,i dont use em

I'm not seeing 5 million baht's worth of gear in the photos. Would it be cynical of me to wonder where that stuff will be this time next week?

I'm not seeing 5 million baht's worth of gear in the photos. Would it be cynical of me to wonder where that stuff will be this time next week?

The worth of the confiscated gear is likely assessed through the cost of the real article v the copies siezed.

Things people can do with numbers to make it a bigger bust than it really is, eh?....................

Funny they always raid shopping malls for fakes, but never factories. Seems that manufacturing fakes is ok, just selling them is not.

Hope they got the rude ^%$@ who sold me jeans and then cut them too short. Didn't even have me put them on just measured the tape against me and marked them.