マレーシア・ニュース

RM 750万相当のＤＶＤ押収

[カジャン]　昨日チェラスのタマン・チェラス・ジャヤのお店で50万枚以上（ＲＭ750万相当）の海賊版ＤＶＤが押収された。警察官30人、貿易省と消費者組織の役人19名がらなるチームは午後5時に現場を急襲し、きれいに箱の中で山積みされたＤＶＤを発見した。
しかし、現場で作業していたと思われるグループは背後のドアから逃げてしまった模様。彼らは入り口をカメラで監視していたと思われる。

調査によると、このビルでは国際的シンジケートが活動していたと見られ、アメリカやヨーロッパ向けの海賊版ＤＶＤが複製されていた。ここで作成されていたＤＶＤの質は高く、輸送にはＰＯＳを利用していたようだ。「キング・オブ・ヘブン」「シード・オブ・チュッキー」「ＸＸＸ２」「ザ・パシフィァー」などのＤＶＤが作成されていた。また、「スターウォーズ・エピソード３」も製作していた様子。

[MCS　5月21日　20：06配信]

ニュース・ソース

RM7.5 MIL DVD HAUL

KAJANG : More than 500,000 pirated DVDs worth about RM7.5 million were seized from a storeroom in Jalan CJ1/63,Taman Cheras Jaya in Cheras yesterday.
A team , comprising 30 police personnel and 19 Domestic trade and Consumer Affairs officers,raided the building at 5pm after staking out the place for three days.
They found the DVDs neatly stacked in boxes.
However,workers,who were believed to be packing the goods,managed to escape through the back door when they detected the officers via a closed circuit camera at the entrance.
The Ministry's deputy director-general(enforcement),Mohd Roslan Mahayudin,said the officers had to break through several heavily padlocked doors to enter the premises.
"We believed the workers had escaped when they were alerted by our presence.We found a CCTV camera at the front gate."he said.
Investigations revealed that the building was used by an international syndicate to store the pirated DVDs befor dictributing them to the United States and Europe.
This is based on the high quality products and inlays found.
"They are believed to have used Pos Lajyu to export the discs as we found several pos Laju certificates among the pirated wares,"he said.
Among the pirated movies are Kingdom Of Heaven,Seed of Chucky,XXX2 and The Pacifier.
They also found inlays of Star Wars Episode 3 but could not find the discs.
The case is being investigated under Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987 for possession of carries a fine of between RM2,000 and RM20,000 for each infringed copy or a five-year jail term or both upon conviction.

[The Malay Mail 21/May.]