Qatar: Counterfeit goods seized
Issue 967
- 04 Apr 2014
| 1 minute read
Tens of thousands of counterfeit products were seized across Qatar in a joint Qatar-Interpol operation on 12-16 March – the first such Interpol co-ordinated operation in the Middle East. Interpol said in a statement on 20 March that Operation Al-Shaheen, carried out by the Qatar Ministry of Interior and the Interpol National Central Bureau in Doha, involved more than 600 raids at shops, markets and retail outlets. Around 140,000 illicit products were confiscated and 147 people placed under investigation. Among the fake items seized were car parts, tobacco products, cosmetics, food, mobile phones and household appliances.
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