Audi Built These Cars, Just Not for Germany
China-only AUDI E5s are reaching Germany by grey import. The cars are genuine, so there is nothing to authenticate. VW's 22 seized ID.6s show what...
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When the Certificate Is the Thing Being Faked
Japan's new taskforce wants better card authentication. Collectibles already grade, seal and serialise every item, and counterfeit submissions still...
The Fake Cancer Drug Came in a Real Vial
India will require QR codes on every cancer drug by July 2027. The Keytruda ring it responds to used genuine vials, stolen after they were emptied.
Counterfeit Dollars Ride the Cocaine Routes
Colombian police seized $2.5m in fake dollars from a Cali print shop built on the cartels' old infrastructure. Counterfeiting runs on the same rails...
How 3,119 UPS Labels Drained a Nike Warehouse
Twelve people were indicted over a $2m theft ring inside Nike's Memphis warehouse. The stock left on real-looking UPS shipments. The insiders held...
Counterfeit World Cup Shirts and the Trade Behind Them
Edinburgh seized 158,000 fake football shirts worth £5.5m, a record UK counterfeit haul. The visible seizure is the easy part; tracing the supply...
Why Delisting Counterfeits Is Not the Same as Stopping Them
Temu's 2026 IP report shows 331 proactive removals for every complaint. Impressive online, but a blocked listing is not a deterred counterfeiter.
A $10 million cargo theft ring and the poly-crime economy behind it
Eight people were charged in a $10 million cargo theft conspiracy. Read against Europol and EUIPO's work on poly-criminality, it looks a lot like the...
Taiwan raids Super Micro offices amid AI chip smuggling probe
Taiwan prosecutors raided Super Micro's Taiwan office and three affiliated firms, seizing servers suspected of carrying Nvidia AI chips destined for...
Vietnam cosmetics market battles counterfeit surge threatening growth
Vietnam's fast-growing beauty sector faces a wave of counterfeit products that erode trust and strain regulators, prompting calls for tech-driven...