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Tue, 12/21/2010 - 17:55
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Thailand’s DSI seizes pirated discs worth 25 million baht
BANGKOK,Dec 21(TNA) - The Thai Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Tuesday raided warehouses storing pirated DVDs made in China and seized the pirated products worth 25 million baht.
DSI Director-General Tharit Pengdit held a press conference to announce the seizure of a big lot of pirated movie DVDs. He said police brought a search warrant issued by the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court to search two houses in Bangkok.
Police found over 50,000 pirated DVDs mostly containing foreign movies. The pirated products allegedly cause a combined copyright damage of about 25 million baht. The officers seized all the discs and charged Mr Manop Suk-on and Mr Dilok Mangkhalathimongkhol, the owners of the two houses with copyright violation which is liable to a four-year jail term and a fine of 400,000 baht.
The DSI chief said the suspects were part of a major wholesale racket that imported pirated DVD9 and Blue-ray discs together with their perfectly copied packages from a big supplier overseas. The products were stored at both houses pending distribution.
Both suspects admitted to being the supervisors of the houses and facilitated the searches. They also confessed the pirated discs violated the copyrights of producers in the United States including Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Disney Enterprise, and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.
Both suspects did not own the illicit business which was actually run by a Chinese who is still at large.(TNA)
DSI Director-General Tharit Pengdit held a press conference to announce the seizure of a big lot of pirated movie DVDs. He said police brought a search warrant issued by the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court to search two houses in Bangkok.
Police found over 50,000 pirated DVDs mostly containing foreign movies. The pirated products allegedly cause a combined copyright damage of about 25 million baht. The officers seized all the discs and charged Mr Manop Suk-on and Mr Dilok Mangkhalathimongkhol, the owners of the two houses with copyright violation which is liable to a four-year jail term and a fine of 400,000 baht.
The DSI chief said the suspects were part of a major wholesale racket that imported pirated DVD9 and Blue-ray discs together with their perfectly copied packages from a big supplier overseas. The products were stored at both houses pending distribution.
Both suspects admitted to being the supervisors of the houses and facilitated the searches. They also confessed the pirated discs violated the copyrights of producers in the United States including Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Disney Enterprise, and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.
Both suspects did not own the illicit business which was actually run by a Chinese who is still at large.(TNA)
