DSI raided to search places storing trademark infringed goods for sale on Facebook with over 100 million Baht damage

DSI raided to search places storing trademark infringed goods for sale on Facebook with over 100 million Baht damage

       On Sunday, February 14, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. the Director-General Pol.Lt.Col. Korrawat Panprapakorn and a Deputy Director-General Pol.Col. Akarapol Punyopashtambha ordered the Director of Intellectual Property Crime Bureau Pol.Lt.Col. Phayao Thongsen and his officials to join forces with police from the Nong Pling Police Station and the Nakhon Sawan Police Station in Nakhon Sawan Province to search 2 target places, namely the storehouse no. 9/110 Nakhon Sawan Ok Sub-district, Muang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province rented for keeping goods infringing trademarks registered in the Kingdom by another person and the storehouse (no number) Kosi Road, Pak Nam Pho Subdistrict, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province, as the places storing and distributing trademark infringed goods for sale on Facebook to the general public. The search found a lot of fake trademark goods over 20,000 pieces of handbags, wallets, glasses, watches, and scarfs of Fendi, Gucci, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Rolex, YSL, Christian Dior, Coach, MCM, CELINE, Gentle Monster. The total of damage or the market values was worth 100 million Baht or more.

       The raid resulted from Intellectual Property Crime Bureau kept investigating and monitoring a group of persons illegally selling goods as a wholesaler, and smuggling trademark infringed goods from foreign countries through land borders and storing them in the said target storehouse for selling to retailers in Sampheng area and to small customers. The commission of crime of the said target storehouses is being retailers fraudulently selling fake goods, both AAA quality goods and non-quality goods on Facebook to deceive to interested buyers regarded as an offence as it destroyed the overall economy of the country. After the approval of the DSI Director-General to inquire this case as its special case, the Bureau then planned the said search and arrest. The Intellectual Property Crime Bureau has its policy to suppress intellectual property infringement seriously and continuously, especially in the red zone and the areas of intellectual property infringement.

Dated February 16, 2021