Metro police, customs officials and members of the City Improvement District raided stores in Marabastad for counterfeit goods. Picture: Etienne Creux
Truckloads of counterfeit goods estimated to be worth R8.5 million have been confiscated by Tshwane Metro Police in a raid on trading areas in Marabastad and Montana.
Scores of shoppers looked on as members of the metro police, customs and the City Improvement District Unit packed shoes, handbags, clothing, fireworks, and other items into large plastic bags in Marabastad yesterday.
Alta Fourie, spokeswoman for the Tshwane Metro Police, said the raid was one of the city’s festive season clean-up operations.
Operations would be carried out every day in different areas of the city until the end of next month.
Fourie confirmed that the metro police had confiscated R8.5m in goods. She said a small shop had been closed temporarily and the owner had been fined R2 500 for having more fireworks in its possession than allowed.
They also confiscated R500 worth of fireworks from street vendors.
Fourie said operations were carried out in conjunction with the Tshwane Emergency Services (fire brigade), the SAPS Explosives Unit, the By-law Unit, CID and SA Revenue Service.
She said the operations included checking for counterfeit goods, irregularities in terms of fireworks laws, possession of drugs, overloading of vehicles, and roadworthiness of light passenger vehicles.
The programme of action also included law enforcement on highways, and stop-and-search operations, she said. – Pretoria News
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