Thailand's D S I Cracks Down On Counterfeit Products

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DSI cracks down on counterfeit products

Bangkok, 2 May 2013, (NNT)-- Director General of Department of Special Investigation (DSI) Tarit Pengdit, Deputy Agricultural and Cooperatives Minister, Nuttawut Saikuea, and Deputy Secretary General of the Anti-Money- Laundering Office (AMLO) Female Police Captain Suwanee Sawangpon, yesterday announced the results of a joint operation in eradicating counterfeit products during the month of April, confiscating items worth around 30 million baht from 4 major raids.

According to Mr. Tarit, most of the counterfeit goods are smart phone cases, more than 200,000 of which, worth 20 million baht altogether, have been seized in Bangkhuntien and Jomthong districts in the capital.

The owner of the building which houses the confiscated items is a foreign woman who goes by the name of 'Je Juu' (เจ้จู). Authorities also raided five other spots belonging to the same network and seized over sixteen thousand pieces of counterfeit clothing and fashion items worth around 5 million baht.

In addition, the DSI's offices in Suratthani and Phuket Provinces have confiscated over 14,000 pieces of counterfeit goods worth around 7.5 million baht.

All the suspects will be prosecuted under the new money-laundering laws, which requires the DSI to forward to the Anti-Money-Laundering Office (AMLO) for further action.

If the suspects are found guilty by the court, their assets will be seized by AMLO, said Tarit.


-- NNT 2013-05-02

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[gl555]

Taking a break from trying to jam up the Dems?

[Neilly]

DSI cracks down on counterfeit products

Not doing too well are they

[clockman]

Just talk!!!!!!!!!!! the market is just as profitable a drugs! and safer for the people controlling the market.

[chainarong]

Didn't a cop get shot at the last clamp down or was that the clamp down before this last clamp down, DSI tarit has he's fingers in every pie.

[Thai at Heart]

Too late. So now a crisis reaction

[lee b]

Emm going to be very long job. Everything on the streets is fake. Oh MBK , Pantip etc ITS NOT REAL haha

[WhizBang]

According to Mr. Tarit, most of the counterfeit goods are smart phone cases

Really? Cannot be looking too hard. What about the counterfeit smartphones (that are sold as genuine) that go in those cases?

And let's not forget that really hot potato, the bomb detector.

[MunterHunter]

Can we hope for a crack-down on Counterfeit PM's?

[Thai at Heart]

Can we hope for a crack-down on Counterfeit PM's?

I think there should be a crackdown on counterfeit crack downs, until there is evidence of a genuine crack down, it should be assumed that all stated crack downs are counterfeit.

[Always18]

"The owner of the building................is a foreign woman........." - damn, those foreigners are always causing problems in Thailand..............

[Locationthailand]

Is it that time of year again?

Simply culling the competition by the sounds of it...

[LuckyLew]

Every time a list of copyright infringers and the like come out ... Thailand's Govt' make this same announcement

Same old same old .............

[Thai at Heart]

Is it that time of year again?

Simply culling the competition by the sounds of it...

No, this is an extensive crackdown because they are proudly still on the watch list, despite all their best assiduous efforts.

[khunken]

Damn - I just bought one of those holders on Sukhumvit, next to the fake DVDs, handbags, shirts, shorts, viagara, watches, pens, lighters, weapons, shoes, jeans, hats, & all.

Wonder if it was a fake too.

[Dr Wanchai]

Can we hope for a crack-down on Counterfeit PM's?

Wot 'bout counterfeit farangs ?!

[MYKTHEMIN]

It must that time of year again!!! and again and again?

[Ricardo]

But when will the DSI be cracking-down on fake democracy, which has enjoyed a several-year run, according to the (allegedly by some) fake-PM ?

[easybullet3]

hahaha!!!

as if!!

they arrest some people,,, they put their photo in the newspapers so people think they are great.

and the next day they allow all the usual fake business to continue as planned.

I saw them outside Panthip Plaza about a year ago... a load of pompous high rank police with DSI and LOADS OF CAMERAS AND MEDIA!!! a sheer publicity stunt.

ALL The usual counterfeit software shops were closed that day.. (hmm,, I wonder how they knew in advance??!!)

and the VERY NEXT DAY, it was all back to normal again.

pathetic!

[johnlandy]

Didn't a cop get shot at the last clamp down or was that the clamp down before this last clamp down, DSI tarit has he's fingers in every pie.

Yes and filling up his bank account, & and that of his wife and all his 'mia noi's'

[Chao Lao Beach]

It must be that time of the month again. correction year.

At least we can rest assured that MBK and Pan Thip is safe !!!!!!!

[JohnyBangkok]

Didn't a cop get shot at the last clamp down or was that the clamp down before this last clamp down, DSI tarit has he's fingers in every pie.

The corruptions is a top down organizational chart. Big Brother is the Thai Mafia in my opinion, I have seen more out right crimes against the people of Thailand's people under this government than any of the ones before. They are stealing money under the noses of the ones that put them in power, as long as they get something for free they care not.

[IsaanUSA]

Counterfeit smart phone cases? Counterfeit of what? Fake plastic/silicone/tpu? What the heck is a counterfeit smartphone case? Are Thai manufacturers copying the 100 baht smartphone cases from China now?