DSI swoops target smuggled fake goods
Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officials yesterday raided three warehouses and an accounting office in Bangkok in a crackdown on smuggled counterfeit goods.
The raids was carried out by four DSI teams under a warrant approved by the Central Intellectual Property and the International Trade Court.
One team, led by Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol, the DSI deputy director-general, targeted the warehouse of PS Sport Cargo Company in Chaeng Watthana Soi 1 in Laksi district.
Piyasiri Watthanawarangkul, deputy chief of the Special Criminal Cases Office 1, led a second team to search the offices and warehouse of Sun Water Rich Power Service Co in Tawanchai Housing Estate on Bang Bon 5 Road in Nong Khaem district.
Another team, led by Noppadol Ratanasathien, a special cases specialist, searched an accounting office on the 6th floor of the S Group Building in Soi Phetchaburi 33 in Ratchathewi district.
Nopporn Prueksawan, a special cases investigator, led the fourth team in a raid to search a warehouse located in Rat Burana district.
They seized a quantity of counterfeit goods such as handbags, shoes, clothes, as well as cosmetics and car motorcycle parts marked with well-known brand names.
The value of the seized items was being assessed.
Pol Maj Suriya said the DSI had kept PS Sport Cargo and Sun Water Rich Power Service under surveillance and gathered evidence confirming they were part of a major network smuggling counterfeit products into the country in violation of the Patent Rights Act and Trademark Act.
He said the goods are sold in shopping centres such as in the Sampheng, Pratunam and Bo Bae areas in Bangkok and Rong Kluea market in Sa Kaeo’s Aranyaprathet district.
Apart from breaking intellectual property laws, the smuggling also violated the Customs Act and Anti-Money Laundering Act, Pol Maj Suriya said.