The officers also found about 500 counterfeit DVD's and hundreds of counterfeit brand-name handbags, prosecutors said.
Hajjaj uses his friends as models, and he designs their outfits with traditional prints and counterfeit brand-name fabrics from markets in London and Marrakesh.
Brazil, in particular, says Mr. Bikoff, is a leader in churning out pirated computer software products as well as an array of counterfeit brand-name goods.
Raids in the Las Flores district of Buenos Aires, home to a host of small sweatshops, recently resulted in the closure of three manufacturers of counterfeit brand-named clothes.
Prosecutors charged three men yesterday with selling illegal weapons, forged credit cards and counterfeit brand-name goods out of a College Point furniture store, the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, said.
Most of the young rallygoers, dressed in counterfeit brand-name jeans, T-shirts and sneakers, had traveled to Sialkot on their own, unlike some of their upper-middle-class peers in Lahore and Karachi, who were bused into Khan's massive rallies in October and December.
Investigators told The Times that both counterfeit brands came from China.
Typical junk mail comes from freelancers (see article) who are paid to direct traffic to websites that sell fake pills and counterfeit brands.
It has persistently highlighted the dangers of illicit tobacco smuggling, claiming that the introduction of plain packs would lead to a surge in potentially dangerous counterfeit brands because the packs would be easy to copy.
But this counterfeit Hinduism is considered good enough for tribal people, just like the counterfeit brands of everything else – biscuits, soap, matches, oil – that are sold in village markets.
