Over 3m counterfeit products seized in Dubai

DUBAI: Over three million counterfeit products of more than 30 renowned brands were confiscated in Dubai within a week after Dubai government officials raided four warehouses in the emirate.

The raids are part of its strategic focus on protecting intellectual property as well as the rights of trademark owners and consumers. Director of Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Dubai Economy department Ibrahim Bahzad said the department along with law enforcement agencies team took 14 days to investigate after receiving information on the counterfeits stocked in different warehouses.

One of the warehouses had a stock of over one million pieces of counterfeit products, including phone accessories, ladies handbags, clothes, leather goods, inks, printers, cosmetics, watches and contact lenses. 

Around 928,000 items including duplicate phones and accessories were seized from the second warehouse while the third had over 700,000 imitations of five international perfume brands and the fourth was found to have stocked 252,000 pieces of counterfeit perfumes, cosmetics and cleaning products.