The Dubai Police General Investigation and Criminal Investigation Department implemented a lightning attack within 60 minutes, resulting in the seizure of 29,217 precious global hours, with a market value of more than one billion and 239 million dirhams.

The Dubai Police’s Department for Combating Economic Crimes recorded, during the past four years, 2402 cases of counterfeit products, and the value of seizures exceeded six billion and 759 million dirhams.

The Director of the Department, Brigadier Jamal Salem Al-Jallaf, said during a press conference yesterday, that reliable information came from the administration, stating that there is a huge amount of accurate hours of tradition, in the possession of two Asian people, who intend to promote and sell them in the Naif region, so a task force has been set up to follow up The information, ascertaining its authenticity, and was able to identify the defendants by referring to the Center for Forensic Analysis at the General Administration of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, then arrived at their whereabouts and the locations in which the counterfeit hours were hidden, which are two apartments used to store counterfeit goods that the defendants bring from abroad.

He added that the work team set the zero hour and raided the two apartments, and found huge quantities of replica watches from international brands, such as: Rolex, Cartier, and others, and the number reached 29 thousand and 217 hours, and the market value of one billion and 239 million, 24 thousand and 450 dirhams.

Al-Jallaf stressed that controlling this huge quantity of luxury counterfeit watches is a message that Dubai Police will strike with its partners from the Department of Economic Affairs with an iron hand on all those who have been asked to trade counterfeit products, and the emirate will remain a safe investment oasis for entrepreneurs and the economy, noting that the violation Intellectual property causes huge losses to brands and big companies, who spend billions on their industry and trade.

Al-Jallaf pointed out that the interconnection of partners from governmental and private bodies had a great role in the success of the process, and reflects the growing awareness of such criminal methods, expressing his hope to achieve more cooperation by members of society, to report on such practices and activities prohibited, by communicating with The Dubai Police call center at (901).

For his part, Ibrahim Behzad, director of the Department of Intellectual Property Protection at the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, said that the administration and the Dubai Police are working as a team to address these practices and protect the rights of trademark owners, pointing to the registration of common issues, in the context of ensuring the exchange of information and prosecuting those involved In these crimes.

He added that, according to statistics last year, cosmetics topped the list of counterfeit products seized by the department, pointing out that the problematic in these products is their direct harm to consumer health, calling on community members to resort to trusted stores and agencies, to ensure the purchase of original products, because Any money spent on counterfeit goods is real loss and wasted money.

Original watches with imitation machines

The head of the commercial affairs division of Siddiqi and Sons Group revealed to “Emirates Today”, on the sidelines of the press conference, the seizure of original luxury watches, but with counterfeit machines, in cooperation with Dubai Police, pointing out that this represents a direct fraud on the consumer, which differs in its image from selling an hour Imitating the consumer with the truth. He pointed out that the group allows the detection of branded watches, as part of its keenness to educate community members, and to help them reveal any falsehood or imitation.

He added that some waste huge amounts of money in buying counterfeit watches, such as a person who buys a watch valued at 100 thousand dirhams for 20 thousand, believing that he saved 80 thousand dirhams, but the fact that he later discovers is that he lost 20 thousand dirhams, because he bought something that is not approved, he loses his value directly, As well as being vulnerable to damage quickly.

Counterfeit products worth 6.7 billion dirhams

The director of the Department of Economic Crime Prevention, Colonel Salah Bouasiba, said that the number of commercial fraud cases, recorded during four years, reached 2402 cases, and the value of counterfeit products seized amounted to 6.7 billion dirhams, which included 416 cases during the past year, 472 accused involved, and the value of seizures It has more than 2.7 billion dirhams.

• The two accused concealed the fake watches inside two apartments, and sought to promote them in the Naif area.