Customs out to gut P300-M fake goods

Thousands of jobs and unsuspecting consumers may have been saved from the ill effects of piracy and smuggling by the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) condemnation of P300-million worth of seized smuggled fake high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Channel, Gucci, La Coste, Breitling, Ballenciaga, and Hermes among other famous brands.

In the biggest condemnation of seized fake goods for the year at the BOC recently, Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said that, the counterfeit goods were seized by BOC-Intellectual Property Rights Division (IPRD) operatives under lawyer Zsae Carrie de Guzman, an operating unit of the BOC–Intelligence Group (IG) under Deputy Commissioner Danilo Lim, after conducting a visit on a warehouse at the Aclem Building in Binondo, Manila.