For more than a decade, the Cherkizovsky outdoor market had been a warren of plywood shacks where horse meat and live turtles went on sale beside bales of counterfeit name-brand jeans from China in an explosion of raw commerce.
Experts at the CIVB have begun paying visits to local wine shops and grocery stores, compiling a database of counterfeit names and investigating links between the sellers and fraudulent producers, the article says.
Beware of counterfeit brand name watches.
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.
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.
Handbag.com, for example, fell victim to a counterfeit site named handbagcom.com.
The New China News Agency reported last fall that 11 people had been arrested on suspicion of selling more than 100 counterfeit brand-name elevators across China.
Millions of counterfeit brand-name smokes get smuggled from Moldova into Transnistria, then down to the Black Sea via the Ukrainian city of Odessa.
While many affiliates appear to restrict their activities to issues like opening access to government contracts or combating the counterfeiting of name-brand goods, others, like the Nicaraguan group, seek broader influence, echoing the role increasingly played in Washington by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
