Further Arrests Made Over Copied Goods Crackdown

Woraphan Akaboot 06.12.2009 20:30

Pirated games sold at Tukcom in Pattaya that were detained by local police.

Following last months raid on TUKCOM, Pattaya Police have continued their crackdown on counterfeit goods and have arrested two female suspects, Miss Waree Urat aged 40 and Mrs Angkhana Thongchai aged 30, involved in a pirated CD and DVD business confiscated more than three million baht worth of copied CD’S & DVD’S.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Phasakorn Phaijit stated that police arrested the pair at a Pattaya apartment in relation to the illegal piracy.

They were said to be illegally reproducing both English and Thai CD’s and DVD’s then selling the copies to the public from their movie rental shop in Pattaya. Police officers confiscated seven computer screens, five computers, one notebook, various printers, documents substantiating the piracy, sales receipts and approximately 10,400 illegal copies in the raid.

According to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition if the counterfeit economy were a business, it would be the world’s biggest. A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development indicates that up to 200 billion U.S. Dollars of international trade could have been in counterfeit and pirated goods per year.

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