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Faux Chanel confiscated in Jakarta
The National Police have seized hundreds of counterfeit Chanel products from 13 stores in Mangga Dua and Senen, Jakarta
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The National Police have seized hundreds of counterfeit Chanel products from 13 stores in Mangga Dua and Senen, Jakarta.
The head of the National Police's special economic crimes division, Sr. Comr. Helmy Santika, said his team carried out a raid on Wednesday after receiving reports from the public in May about the sale of purses, bags, shoes and clothes fraudulently branded as Chanel.
'The Chanel brand is registered at the directorate of intellectual property at the Human Rights and Law Ministry and is also protected under the 2001 law on brands,' Helmy said, as quoted by kompas.com on Friday.
Of the 13 stores, 10 were located at ITC Mangga Dua in North Jakarta and the remaining three at Senen wholesale market in Central Jakarta.
Helmy added that the confiscated items would become case evidence.
After Wednesday's raid, the police summoned the stores' owners and attendants as witnesses in the hope of identifying suspects further up the supply chain. (ika)
