Fake brand-name blankets and bed sheets worth over 3 million baht were seized from a warehouse rented by a Chinese national near a border market in Aranyaprathet.
A team of customs officials, police and soldiers raided Namphet warehouse on Wednesday evening, acting on information that a large amount of pirated products were stored there.
The warehouse is one of 30 located about one kilometre from the Rong Kluea market. During the search, officers found many blankets and bed sheets with fake brand names such as Hello Kitty, Superman and Spider-man, and other pirated items carrying logos of international football clubs.
Those items were found packed in large sacks and cardboard boxes inside the warehouse. There were no import documents or tax payment receipts for the goods. Nobody came forward to claim ownership of them.
A caretaker of the warehouse told officials a Chinese national had rented it to store his goods. He did not know what kind of goods. The Chinese man could not be contacted and was believed to have left for China.
Authorities believed the Chinese man was a trader and had smuggled the pirated goods for sale at the border market during the cold season.
