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2017 Yearbook
The new dimension of the
manufacture and sale of
counterfeit sports products
- CloseTies betweenThis Shadow Business and the Financing of Terrorist
Activities Revealed -
Dr. Jochen M. Schaefer
Legal Counsel of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) and of the
European Sporting Goods Industry Federation FESI/Lawyer in Private Practice
1. Introduction:
In July 2016 I have been contacted by an investigative German TV journalist employed
by the prominent and reputed public German TV channel One of the ARD. She told me
that since numerous months, if not years, she is working on a documentary, which reveals
and proves close links between the manufacture and sale of counterfeit goods beyond
the already known strong involvement of the organized crime, but also the financing of
terrorist activities including their traveling to terrorist camps and the purchase of weapons