Fake HP Cartridges Found in the UAE

Date:L Feburary 11, 2010

Sharjah, Dubai -- Reported on Business Week’s website on October 27, a substantial number of counterfeit materials bearing the HP logo were seized in Sharjah, Dubai. The total number of items seized included 1,939 stickers, 821,252 empty boxes and associated packaging, and 14,668 empty printer ink cartridges that were set to be sold as new.

The agency responsible for discovering the counterfeit merchandise was the Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD). They were working with the police in that area in a raid on a villa in the Al Jazat area. The SEDD general manager, Ali Salim Al Mahmoud, was quoted as saying: “counterfeiting damages the public welfare as well as the national economy.” He stated further that: “As such, we have increased the number of monitoring campaigns and have instructed the monitoring teams to take action against people involved in counterfeiting activities.”

BY ADAM HAIGH, Editor