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Crackdown In China: FBI Helps Arrest 25, Seize $500 Million In Counterfeit Goods

Financial Times   |  Mure Dickie   |   July 25, 2007 12:23 PM

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation , Breaking Business News
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An "unprecedented" joint crackdown on software piracy by Chinese police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has led to 25 arrests and the seizure of counterfeit software worth $500m, the FBI said on Tuesday.

The investigations into goods pirated from Microsoft and other US companies were hailed by the American software giant as a "milestone in the fight against software piracy". It said: "Countries around the world are expected to experience a significant decrease in the volume of counterfeit software as a direct result of this action."

The FBI said the action was an "unprecedented co-operative effort" that had seized 290,000 counterfeit software CDs.

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