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Counterfeit items destroyed in Crame

By: - Reporter / @NCorralesINQ
/ 11:24 AM June 27, 2014

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MANILA, Philippines- Pirated and counterfeited items were flattened and shredded on Friday morning in a ceremonial destruction at Camp Crame in Quezon City.

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The pirated items were part of a 6.8 billion-worth of seized goods since the start of 2014, Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the Philippines Director General Ricardo Blancaflor said.

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Blancaflor said the anti-piracy crusade of the IPO together with the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation led to the exclusion of the Philippines in the world piracy watch.

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“We have long deserved this,” he said.

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According to him, piracy posed risk to the Philippine economy as well as the security and health of local consumers.

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Meanwhile, Director Virgilio Mendez of the NBI assured the agency’s commitment to end the decades-long battle of piracy in the country.

During the ceremonial destruction, PNP personnel used an armored car and a grinder to crush the pirated items that included shoes, DVDs, CDs and counterfeit drugs.

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The ceremonial destruction was in connection with the Anti-Word Counterfeiting Day.

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