Counterfeit Products In The News:
A Fascinating Peek Inside China's Booming Counterfeit Wine Market 
Jun 10, 2013 - By Mark Byrnes
China is one of the world's biggest wine consumers, importing nearly $1 billion worth of wine (67.9 million gallons) from the European Union last year. The growing appetite for the drink has brought with it a booming counterfeit market.
BMW Group accelerates the fight against counterfeit auto parts
Jun 09, 2013 - By AME Info
BMW Group Middle East is warning consumers of the dangers of using counterfeit automotive spare parts flooding into the UAE and other Middle East markets.
NY Counterfeit Airbag Proposal Moves Forward in Senate
May 29, 2013 - By Honda
The NY Senate Consumer Protection committee has approved a measure that would make it a specific crime to sell fake or non-functional airbags. Lying that a phony airbag is real would also be a crime.
The Battle Of The Fakes: Versace Wins
May 29, 2013 - By Sarah Karmali
Versache has won a landmark court case against the selling of counterfeit products on eBay.
Fake Drug Pipeline Undercuts Progress
May 28, 2013 - By Benoit Faucon - Wall Street Journal
Customs officials search a cargo container from China, and find something hidden inside a shipment of loudspeakers: 1.4 million packets of counterfeit Coartem, a malaria drug made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis
eBay Terminates Whistleblower Who Exposed eBay’s Counterfeiting Problems
May 27, 2013 - By TCR Press Release
eBay Terminates Whistleblower Who Exposed eBay's Counterfeiting Problems
Chinese police destroy £21million of counterfeit designer goods
May 15, 2013 - By Daily Mail
Chinese police destroyed £21 million of counterfeit designer goods today in a lavish publicity stunt aimed at showing the world they are cracking down on the illegal trade.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324959/Chinese-police-destro
Fake Dr Dre Headphones One of Most Seized Items
May 09, 2013 - By Rick Kelsey
Some 200,000 pairs of fake Beats have been taken by officers and customs at UK ports over the past year.
Counterfeiter Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
Apr 19, 2013 - By Business Wire
Michael Reeder, 35, of Carbis Close, Port Solent, Portsmouth, who was convicted on March 19th of 13 offenses under the Trade Marks Act, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison by Portsmouth Crown Court in the U.K.
UN Report -- Asia Organized Crime Generates $90 Billion Anually
Apr 19, 2013 - By United Nations
April 16, 2013 -- Illicit markets in East Asia and the Pacific earn organized criminal groups nearly USD 90 billion a year – an amount roughly equal to twice the GDP of Myanmar, according to a UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report released today.
