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Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
in Europe through the sales of fake products prior to committing these deadly acts. She had learnt
about the collective online anti-counterfeit project the WFSGI had successfully launched a few years ago
upon my initiative, where the Internet is systematically screened by using sophisticated technology and
multiple websites of infringing illegal offerings of counterfeit products have been taken down with the
help of the WFSGI’s Italian cooperation partner company Convey.
I have then been interviewed by her and her team in Munich at the end of July same as subsequently
Michele Provera from Convey and Italy.
The following is a translation of a TV feature (in an abbreviated version), which has been broadcasted
on August 24, 2016 on prime time in the German Channel One in the context of an economic magazine
plusminus. It sends a very strong signal not only to consumers, who mostly are of the opinion that
the purchase of counterfeit goods including sports products is just a petty offense, but have not the
slightest idea what is hidden behind the curtain and whom they support with such purchases (apart
from terrorism, all kinds of phony shadow businesses and the organized crime such as dealing with
drugs, slavery, illegal weapon trade, prostitution, illegal gambling use the manufacture and sales of fake
products as the most attractive tool to laundry money and to maximize profits in a fairly easy and nearly
risk free manner at global scale, while the manufacturing sources of such counterfeits have their origin
quite frequently in the Far East).