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Survey: Counterfeiting reaches nearly $1 trillion in December

26/01/2005

According to a survey carried out by Gieschen Consultancy, during the month of December 2004, the value of counterfeit items sold and seized was $875,252,592,693 from 227 incidents involving more than 14,987,023 items.

The survey was based on the past month of worldwide counterfeit enforcement activity (investigations, raids, seizures, arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, civil litigation, public announcements), as reported through the DOPIP Security Counterfeit Intelligence Report, in which more than 227 incidents from 35 countries were analysed.

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