The customs and law-enforcement officers of Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region keep doing regular checks of ‘dubious’ retail outlets this year. Once the representatives of two types of authorities have joined their efforts, detection and prevention of crimes has become more effective.

For example, the officers confiscated 630 pirated items from the local stores in the first quarter of 2010. This figure was three times greater than that for the first quarter of 2009.

The experts who carried out an examination of the goods declared all of them were counterfeited clothing and footwear items bearing the logos of Lacoste, Adidas, Umbro, and Nike.