Amazon, Cartier sue counterfeiters for selling fake luxury goods on Instagram
Amazon has invested more than $900 million and employed more than 12,000 people dedicated to protecting customers and brands.
San Francisco: Amazon and luxury jewellery brand Cartier have filed lawsuits against a social media influencer and eight businesses for advertising, promoting and facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods through Instagram and other websites.
Lear MoreRs 2.14-crore worth non-duty paid liquor destroyed in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam
ONGOLE: The Prakasam Police and the SEB officials under the supervision of the district SP Malika Garg destroyed non-duty paid liquor (NDPL) worth around Rs 2.14 crore in Ongole on Wednesday. The police destroyed a total of 42,810 bottles of illegal liquor, by crushing them with a road roller.
Speaking on the occasion, the SP said that since 2019, SEB officials and police have conducted raids and inspections in various parts of the district and seized large quantities of illicit liquor. A total of 42,810 liquor bottles of various brands seized in 904 cases (other State NDPL cases and Duty Paid Liquor without Seals cases) registered in SEB stations and Police Stations in the district, valued at about Rs 2.14 crore.
Lear MoreDuplicate ‘Surf Excel’ manufacturing unit busted in Greater Noida, 1 held
A factory manufacturing duplicate ‘Surf Excel’ detergent powder was busted in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida and one person was arrested in connection with the case, the police said on Wednesday.
The unit, located in the Site-5 area of Greater Noida, was busted by the Kasna police on Tuesday, they said.
Over 10,000 sachets of 80-gm weight having the label of Hindustan Unilever’s Surf Excel brand and more than 32,000 unprinted sachets of the same size, besides 50 kg of raw material and a similar amount of a chemical was seized from the spot, officials said.
Lear MoreGurugram: Cops confiscate 7440 bottles of foreign liquor worth Rs. 25 lakh
Gurugram: In a major crackdown, over 7,440 bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMLF) were confiscated by Gurugram police. The cops seized a truck loaded with 7,440 bottles of IMLF on June 12 evening. The vehicle was transporting the stock from a liquor Godown in Sector 46 to another one in Sector 47, police asserted.
The stock is worth more than Rs. 25 lakh. The seized stock will be surrendered soon to the Haryana excise department, Hindustan Times reported. The Godown owner allegedly forged a permit and was illegally transporting the stock.
Lear MoreAssam Rifles seizes cigarettes smuggled from Myanmar
Aizawl, Jun 14 (IANS): Assam Rifles troopers on Tuesday seized foreign-origin cigarettes, valued at around Rs 3.90 lakh — just a few days after the para-military force seized similar foreign-origin tobacco products valued at Rs 2.35 crore in Mizoram, smuggled in from Myanmar, officials said.
Assam Rifles officials said that acting on a tip-off, the foreign-origin cigarettes valued at Rs 3.90 lakh were seized from a home at Zokhawthar crossing point along India-Myanmar border of Champhai district.
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Lear MoreCustoms Foils Smuggling Attempt Seizes Goods Worth N1.48bn
Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says it has intercepted a total of139 cartons of expired soft drinks the command also stated that it intercepted a total of 325,950 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise locally known as petrol, estimated at over 10 tankers of 33,000 litres each.
The Customs Area Controller, Compt. Mohammed Jibo, during a press conference on Friday, said aside the 139 cartons of expired soft drinks intercepted, it also impounded some consignments of illicit and restricted medicaments.
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GOF seizes about RM3.6 mil worth of smuggled items
PASIR MAS: The General Operations Force (GOF) here seized about RM3.6 million worth of smuggled items and vehicles during the two weeks Ops Wawasan along the Kelantan/Thai border.
GOF Eighth Battalion assistant commander Deputy Superintendent Ramesh K. Krishnan said the items include contraband and drugs and were seized between May 26 and June 6.
During the same period, he said 111 men and 11 women were also arrested for possession of the smuggled items.
“Since the battalion took over Ops Wawasan on May 26, we recorded 29 smuggling cases with the arrest of 122 people.
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Amazon scrapped over 3 million fake products, 4 billion bad listings in 2021: Report
After being under immense pressure to tackle counterfeit products, Amazon identified, seized and disposed of over three million such products in 2021 and prevented four billion bad listings on the site, the company said in its Brand Protection Report.
In 2020, Amazon had barred 10 billion listings and got rid of two million counterfeit products. The Seattle-based company also witnessed a fall in complaints of intellectual property infringement in 2021 even as it grew the number of active brands on its site.
Last year, the e-commerce giant had invested over $900 million and employed more than 12,000 people, including software developers, expert investigators and machine learning scientists, to tackle counterfeit, fraud, and other forms of abuse on the platform.
Lear MoreAssam Rifles seized foreign origin cigarettes at Champhai district
In yet another success in its crusade against smuggling activities, Serchip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles.
AIZAWL: In yet another success in its crusade against smuggling activities, Serchip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East), recovered foreign origin cigarettes in general area Zokhawthar along the Indo-Myanmar border of Champhai district on Tuesday.
The operation was carried out by a team of 8 Assam Rifles on specific information. The approximate cost of the recovered foreign origin cigarettes is worth Rs 91,00,000. The Custom Department Champhai seized the contraband items and detained one person for further legal proceedings, stated a press release.
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Capacity Building Programme for Police Officers on Prevention of Counterfeiting and Smuggling
Focus State: Tamil Nadu
FICCI CASCADE (Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy) organized a Capacity Building Programme for Police Officers of Tamil Nadu on “Prevention of Counterfeiting and Smuggling” at Tamil Nadu Police Academy, Chennai on 31st May 2022. The capacity building programme was organized with an aim to sensitize the police officers on the importance of continued awareness and seriousness of the impact of counterfeit and smuggled goods.
Dr. A Amalraj, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu & Director, Tamil Nadu Police Academy was the chief guest at the programme. Dr Amalraj while highlighting the menace of illicit goods said that such products are not only harmful for consumers but also incur huge losses to the government exchequer. He also emphasized on the need for such training programmes, which not only sensitizes the officers on the magnitude of the problem but also help them to understand the intricacies of smuggling and counterfeiting. He added that “Police is directly involved in stopping the circulation of illicit goods in the society.”
While giving an overview on Socio-Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Smuggling, Mr Deep Chand, Advisor, FICCI CASCADE and Former Special Commissioner of Police, New Delhi said, “Capacity building in terms of skill, infrastructure and technology is essential for the law enforcement agencies in improving the detection and investigation mechanism of crimes relating to counterfeiting and smuggling.” Sharing data from a recent study by FICCI CASCADE, Mr Chand said, in the FY 2018-19 Indian economy saw a loss of Rs.1,17,253 crore and loss of 16.36 livelihood opportunities due to smuggling in five key sectors.
Mr Pradeep Dixit, Vice President, Industry Affairs, ITC Ltd mentioned that proceeds from the sale of counterfeit, smuggled and contraband products contribute to the funding of criminal activities all across the globe. It is vital that industry and enforcement officers work in close collaboration to address this mounting hazard.
Mr Nitin Saluja, Senior Policy Manager, Customer Trust, Amazon India discussed about Amazon’s efforts in mitigating fraud and abuse on marketplaces that hamper customers trust and how Amazon via its various initiatives puts in enormous resources to deliver on its established tenets and to make its marketplace a reliable and safe platform for customers, brands, and sellers to conduct transactions. He stated that amazon is committed to promoting and participating in the efforts for ensuring that the consumers are empowered to enjoy the benefits of online shopping while being protected from the risks, the digital era may present.
Mr. Ashish Sawant, Assistant Manager, Global Brand Protection, APAC Region, Johnson & Johnson emphasized that misspellings, font or print format differences, unprofessional looking packaging, poor print quality, holograms that appear as foil stickers are the major clues to identify illicit products.
Dr. R. Sivakumar, IPS, Deputy Director, Tamil Nadu Police Academy proposed vote of thanks and stated that significant actions are being taken by the officers continuously to put down the illicit trade activities posing serious risk to public health and safety.
FICCI CASCADE has been regularly engaging with law enforcement agencies including police, customs and paramilitary organizations engaged in border protection in sensitizing them on the gravity of the problem.
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