Jun 10 2010, 11:36 PM
QUOTE(liverpool red @ Jun 10 2010, 12:21 PM)
This is funny.. The same newspaper that showed the news on a raid held on fake sports good at JB has an article that is promoting fake jersey?
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Fake sports goods seized
JOHOR BARU: The Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry has seized about RM1.3mil worth of fake goods, including football jerseys and shoes from businessmen who were trying to cash in on the current World Cup fever.
Officers from the ministry had been keeping tabs on a row of shophouses for almost a month before the raid. The seizure was the biggest this year.
State chief enforcement officer Abdul Hamid Abu Bakar said among the 500,000 items seized were shoes, jerseys and other sports merchandise bearing fake labels of Nike, Adidas, Crocs, Gucci, Converse and Levi’s.
“They were trying to cash in on the World Cup by offering fake football jerseys of major teams such as France, Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Germany,” he said.
Seized: Abdul Hamid (left) checking the fake goods during a raid on three connected shophouses at Bukit Indah in Johor Baru Wednesday.
He also said the three shophouses in Bukit Indah were connected to each other and there was a built-in elevator shaft as well as closed-circuit television cameras.
“We believe that the fake good were meant for distribution in Johor as well as other states.”
Abdul Hamid said two men in their 30s, believed to be workers in the premises, were detained.
“We will investigate who the owner of the shops is, where the goods were sourced from and how they were distributed,” he said.
The ministry had raided 40 premises in the state and confiscated fake items worth more than RM90,000 prior to the current seizure.
“We will continue to conduct such operations as we are targeting not only the sellers but also the suppliers of these fake goods,” he said.
JOHOR BARU: The Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry has seized about RM1.3mil worth of fake goods, including football jerseys and shoes from businessmen who were trying to cash in on the current World Cup fever.
Officers from the ministry had been keeping tabs on a row of shophouses for almost a month before the raid. The seizure was the biggest this year.
State chief enforcement officer Abdul Hamid Abu Bakar said among the 500,000 items seized were shoes, jerseys and other sports merchandise bearing fake labels of Nike, Adidas, Crocs, Gucci, Converse and Levi’s.
“They were trying to cash in on the World Cup by offering fake football jerseys of major teams such as France, Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Germany,” he said.
Seized: Abdul Hamid (left) checking the fake goods during a raid on three connected shophouses at Bukit Indah in Johor Baru Wednesday.
He also said the three shophouses in Bukit Indah were connected to each other and there was a built-in elevator shaft as well as closed-circuit television cameras.
“We believe that the fake good were meant for distribution in Johor as well as other states.”
Abdul Hamid said two men in their 30s, believed to be workers in the premises, were detained.
“We will investigate who the owner of the shops is, where the goods were sourced from and how they were distributed,” he said.
The ministry had raided 40 premises in the state and confiscated fake items worth more than RM90,000 prior to the current seizure.
“We will continue to conduct such operations as we are targeting not only the sellers but also the suppliers of these fake goods,” he said.
Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...7939&sec=nation
Anyway to those who think that buying fake jerseys in which is supporting the market and business does no harm, there was a good TV documentary show at astro (Channel 732 - Crime & Investigation Network) that is called Fakes (Part 1 and 2). This documentary show discusses about the fake industry at Thailand and China and it also involves fake Football Jerseys. Sadly the show's repeat was aired in early Jan 2010 so we missed it. But to those who wants to see the trailer of the show, here's a snippet:
http://www.citvasia.com/flash/fakes.swf
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We all love them: cheap ‘Rolexes’, cut-price handbags that are ‘just the same’, DVDs, or drugs we can only get off the internet. No-one suffers, do they?
Fakes is the human story of the fastest rising crime of our times, worth billions of dollars a year. A generation ago some of the world's top brands we’ve outsourced to the East to take advantage of cheap labour. Now it's payback time as counterfeited goods, produced in industrial quantities, are flooding western markets.
Nothing is safe, with everything from toothpaste to toys, and mobile phones to car parts being counterfeited. And lives are being put at risk as even prescription medicines are being faked. In Nigeria, as much as 40 per cent of drugs in circulation are counterfeit, and record quantities have now been detected in the UK.
The series travels to China, Nigeria and Thailand to meet the fakers, and the men and women risking their lives to take them on. Southern China is the heart of global counterfeiting, with a tradition of copying going back centuries. And while brands are unable to stop the tide, the Chinese government are doing nothing.
The series features some of the victims of the trade; from workers forced to work in faking factories, to relatives of people who died due to bogus medicines. And it reveals how the internet, and otherwise law-abiding people, are being used to sell fakes.
Fakes is the human story of the fastest rising crime of our times, worth billions of dollars a year. A generation ago some of the world's top brands we’ve outsourced to the East to take advantage of cheap labour. Now it's payback time as counterfeited goods, produced in industrial quantities, are flooding western markets.
Nothing is safe, with everything from toothpaste to toys, and mobile phones to car parts being counterfeited. And lives are being put at risk as even prescription medicines are being faked. In Nigeria, as much as 40 per cent of drugs in circulation are counterfeit, and record quantities have now been detected in the UK.
The series travels to China, Nigeria and Thailand to meet the fakers, and the men and women risking their lives to take them on. Southern China is the heart of global counterfeiting, with a tradition of copying going back centuries. And while brands are unable to stop the tide, the Chinese government are doing nothing.
The series features some of the victims of the trade; from workers forced to work in faking factories, to relatives of people who died due to bogus medicines. And it reveals how the internet, and otherwise law-abiding people, are being used to sell fakes.
My point here is.. that many people don't know what has gone through when a factory produces fake goods.. in this case, fake jerseys. From the documentary show that I watched, I was shocked to see the workers at the factories producing fake jerseys were treated badly. Some were chained to the machine, working in cramped and not hygienic places.. the workers here are victims. Some are forced to worked because the parents owe money to loan sharks,.. Terrible..
And also.. there are rumours that some of the fake jerseys are unsafe to health.. check this out: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/157...rove-fatal.html
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