P11.8M worth of counterfeit products destroyed in Crame

An inter-agency intellectual property task force on Thursday destroyed at least 11.8 million worth of seized counterfeit products in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

The Philippine National Police staged the ceremonial destruction of the counterfeit products which include luxury bags, shoes, and clothes at the PNP Transformation Oval. Also destroyed during the event were fake medicines, vitamins, and beauty products as well as pirated DVDs.

WATCH: Police personnel destroy the counterfeit products using an armoured personnel carrier. | via @marllybondoc pic.twitter.com/05D3O1f8BC

— GMA News (@gmanews) June 28, 2018

LOOK: Authorities destroy luxury bags, clothes, and other products. via @marllybondoc pic.twitter.com/AbiDfKYkGr

— GMA News (@gmanews) June 28, 2018

The National Committee on Intellectual Property Right (NCIPR) led by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines which is an attached agency of the Department of Trade and Industry has already confiscated around P6.7 billion worth of counterfeit goods from January to May this year.

In a press release, the NCIPR said that this figure does not include yet the counterfeit products seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Optical Media Board (OMB) as they have to submit their reports.

Despite this, NCIPR said that this was already over 80 percent of their total seizure of about P8.2 billion in 2017.

Members of the NCIPR include the PNP, BOC, FDA, OMB, Department of Justice, Department of the Interior and Local Government, National Telecommunications Commission, National Bureau of Investigation, National Book Development Board, and the Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crime.  —LBG, GMA News