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23 January 2018 03:44 am - 1 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}
Sri Lanka Customs yesterday publicly destroyed Rs. 31 million worth large stocks of counterfeit items around 130,000 numbers including Toys, Pharmaceuticals, Automobile spare parts, stationeries and textile items mainly imported from China during the past year.
Speaking to the media Customs Media Spokesman Deputy Director Sunil Jayaratne said, the items seized by the Legal Enforcement Unit (LEU) of the Sri Lanka Customs during the past year were destroyed yesterday at the Orugodawatta Container yard.
The confiscated items had been imported under famous brand names and those items were crushed publicly by road roller machine, he said.
The destruction of consumer items was carried out as a Public Awareness programme.
“The goods were imported illegally in violation of Intellectual Property Act and Customs Ordinance and later on the imported items were confiscated by the customs. Following the destruction all the debris were disposed in an environment friendly way and some materials were sent for recycling,” he said. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)
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Counterfeit & Pirated Goods to be destructed on 22/01/2018 |
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Item |
Quantity(PCs) |
Value(Rs) |
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1 |
Toys |
24,654 |
259,186 |
|
2 |
Stationary |
24,955 |
867,011 |
|
3 |
Boys Cap |
7,338 |
2,053,928 |
|
4 |
Empty oil & Air filter packing |
1590 |
3,179 |
|
5 |
Air Filter |
1,889 |
283,247 |
|
6 |
Oil Filter |
12,870 |
1,801,142 |
|
7 |
Spark Plug |
1,980 |
277,099 |
|
8 |
Nemflex Tablets |
32760 |
1,334,424 |
|
9 |
Handsfree/head phones |
2,514 |
2,513,082 |
|
10 |
Power Adaptors/Phone chargers |
15,086 |
20,469,624 |
|
11 |
PHONE BATTERY |
1,060 |
190,729 |
|
12 |
POWER BANK |
491 |
176,694 |
|
|
Total |
127,187 |
30,229,345 |
anon Tuesday, 23 January 2018 02:58 PM
public awareness ? a better way you could have done was to give those toys to the homeless. Donate stationary to schools!!!
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