Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodian police have confiscated over 30 tonnes of counterfeit cosmetic products in a raid in Phnom Penh last week, the Counter Counterfeit Committee said on May 30. READ MORE>>>

Not long ago a factory which was manufacturing washing powder was shut down in Mayfair, while another producing fake mineral water in Crown Mines also suffered the same faith. READ MORE>>>

Counterfeit versions of branded products including women’s bags, belts and expensive watches worth Dh114.5 million ($31.16 million) were seized by Dubai Police in the first quarter of 2017. READ MORE>>>

Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros Co. W.L.L., (AAB) the sole distributor for Toyota & Lexus vehicles in Qatar, conducted anti-counterfeit spare parts awareness programme with the slogan ‘Toyota Says No to Counterfeit’. The campaign was held at its main workshop training centre at Street 6 in the Industrial Area. READ MORE>>>

Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros Co. W.L.L., (AAB) the sole distributor for Toyota & Lexus vehicles in Qatar, conducted anti-counterfeit spare parts awareness programme with the slogan ‘Toyota Says No to Counterfeit’. The campaign was held at its main workshop training centre at Street 6 in the Industrial Area. READ MORE>>>

In one of the larger recent counterfeit seizures at Dulles Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized 60,000 fake Samsung earbuds that, if genuine, held a retail value of about $360,000. READ MORE>>>

Dubai: Counterfeit versions of branded products including women’s bags, belts and expensive watches worth Dh114.5 million were seized by Dubai Police in the first quarter of 2017. READ MORE>>>

HP has announced multiple seizures of counterfeit printing supplies destined for HP printers in Saudi Arabia. READ MORE>>>

Courtesy of Ohio Public Safety. In January, agents with the Ohio Investigative Unit seized counterfeit NBA, NFL, The North Face and Michael Kors items worth $3,000 during a search warrant at a Cincinnati convenience store. The store owners made a deal and have agreed to cease business operations. These cases are not uncommon. OIU agents recently found more than $1,000 in counterfeit The North Face items in a drive through in Columbus. Last year, the same owner was charged by Columbus Police for selling counterfeit items. YOU know fake food is lucrative when the mobsters ditch drugs and weapons to traffic it. Consider this: PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates food fraud is worth $52 billion globally each year. The illegal trade in firearms is worth an estimated $8.5 billion a year and heroin $30 billion. No wonder food fraud is now among the high rollers of crime. READ MORE>>>

YOU know fake food is lucrative when the mobsters ditch drugs and weapons to traffic it. Consider this: PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates food fraud is worth $52 billion globally each year. The illegal trade in firearms is worth an estimated $8.5 billion a year and heroin $30 billion. No wonder food fraud is now among the high rollers of crime. READ MORE>>>

Counterfeit building materials continue to represent a threat to the construction industry. A recent survey commissioned by the Steel Alliance Against Counterfeiting (SAAC) notes that 53% of respondents in the GCC have personally encountered fake steel products. READ MORE>>>

An alert from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations is warning people about harmful street drugs. The GBI said since January 2015, its crime lab has gotten 454 counterfeit pills. READ MORE>>>

Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Director-General, Mr. Osita Aboloma has lamented the large presence of fake, counterfeit and sub-standard goods in the country. He put the figure at about 50 percent. READ MORE>>>

Almost two-thirds of counterfeit contact lenses tested positive for microbial contamination in a US study, raising the risk of serious eye damage among users. READ MORE>>>

Anhui police have recently busted China’s biggest-ever case of counterfeit sneakers, seizing more than half a million pairs of sham shoes that were intended to be exported to the Middle East and Africa. The total value of the goods involved surpassed 600 million yuan ($87.3 million). READ MORE>>>

Bacterial endophthalmitis sets in quickly, causing pain, redness, and vision loss. This inflammation inside the eye “often culminates with surgical removal of the eyeball or the contents of the eye.” The bacterium Bacillus cereus is one of the common causes of bacterial endophthalmitis, and it is just one of several nasty microbes recently detected on counterfeit contact lenses. READ MORE>>>

BOSTON – Counterfeit makeup being sold online may look like the real thing, but much of it is fake and could be harmful to your health. READ MORE>>>

At least 20 tons of allegedly counterfeit cosmetic products were confiscated on Monday after an undercover government officer infiltrated an illegal Phnom Penh business for more than a month, an official said. READ MORE>>>

Gilead warned that those (generic versions) medicines have not been approved for use in the countries into which they are imported. READ MORE>>>

Members of the public are being urged to be vigilant against buying counterfeit goods when out shopping for summer items. READ MORE>>>

DUBAI – More than half the industry (53 percent) has reported an incidence of, what is believed to be, counterfeit steel products at some point in day-to-day operations, a study commissioned by the Steel Alliance against Counterfeiting (SAAC) revealed. READ MORE>>>

PHUKET: Officials have continued a series of raids on stores selling counterfeit goods, this time at Central Festival, where they seized 524 illegal items with an estimated street value of more than B2 million. READ MORE>>>