{"id":29954,"date":"2015-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/08\/20150806_150124.shtml"},"modified":"2015-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T04:00:00","slug":"3-arrested-in-record-pirate-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/08\/06\/3-arrested-in-record-pirate-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested in record pirate haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/2015\/08\/week2\/fakes_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs and Police officers shut down a syndicate selling counterfeit goods last month, arresting three people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 30,000 products worth $3 million, including leather goods, watches, apparel, footwear, sunglasses and perfume, were seized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a record seizure in terms of quantity in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two upstairs showrooms and a storehouse located in Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsuen Wan were raided.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrestees, aged 32 to 37, included a man who is the suspected mastermind of the syndicate and two women.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apart from operating upstairs stores, the syndicate had a sales network with a membership scheme, said Customs Divisional Commander of Intellectual Property Transnational Investigation Cheuk Tak-wai. He appealed to people to shop at retail stores with a good reputation or at official brand stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/2015\/08\/week2\/fakes_s.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Customs and Police officers shut down a syndicate selling counterfeit goods last month, arresting three people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over 30,000 products worth $3 million, including leather goods, watches, apparel, footwear, sunglasses and perfume, were seized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a record seizure in terms of quantity in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two upstairs showrooms and a storehouse located in Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsuen Wan were raided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrestees, aged 32 to 37, included a man who is the suspected mastermind of the syndicate and two women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from operating upstairs stores, the syndicate had a sales network with a membership scheme, said Customs Divisional Commander of Intellectual Property Transnational Investigation Cheuk Tak-wai. He appealed to people to shop at retail stores with a good reputation or at official brand stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29955,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions\/29955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}