On November 28, Europol announced the completion of an international operation, which was carried out for 6 months from May to November together with Interpol and the Euro -Juader. 27 countries of Europe and America took part in the operation.
14 suspects were detained, whom Europol accuses of “a wasteful lifestyle” at the expense of illegally received income. The operation was held in Colombia and Brazil, however, scammers were arrested in Spain.
Law enforcement agencies on several continents:
- closed 12,526 websites;
- Disabled 32 servers, which were used to spread and place illegal pirate content for 2,294 television channels;
- closed 15 online stores selling counterfeiting counterfeit Products on social networks;
- confiscated 127,365 counterfeit goods (clothes, watches, shoes, accessories, perfumes, electronic goods and covers for telephones) worth more than € 3.8 million
seized counterfeit products
According to the case file, one of the suspects earned € 150,000 per month, “leading a wasteful lifestyle in a luxurious house, owning expensive cars and traveling around the world”.
“The criminal network devoted itself to large -scale marketing and the spread of pirate audiovisual content on the Internet,” Europol said. “As part of the operation, the Spanish police turned off 32 servers that placed illegal content, and confiscated money, documents and 2 luxury cars.”