After many complaints by local designer stores, on Monday evening, a team of over 30 police officers were assigned to clear the area along Beach Road near to Mike Shopping Mall of counterfeit goods vendors.   

The 30 officers divided into 3 teams apprehended a total of 10 vendors with over 10,000 pieces of copies of designer clothes worth thousands of baht.  They were sent for legal proceedings at Pattaya Police Station where Pol. Col. Trairong Piwpan confirmed that the police will continue to crackdown on pirate product vendors to be fair to the original product manufacturers and to bring about a change the poor reputation of Thailand about this illegal but lucrative activity.

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