Last month the Russian police confiscated 103 packaged bales full of fake Apple and Samsung phones; they estimate 10 million rubles ($310,000+) and 179 million rubles ($5.6 million), respectively, in damages for the trademark holders.
As many as 8,400 handsets “with unmistakable signs of falsification,” stacked on a train that ran from Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, were seized at Moscow’s Yaroslavsky Railroad Station in early December; but the find wasn’t officially announced until just before the New Year holiday season when the transport police had concluded that all of the phones were counterfeit.
No documents confirming the legality of the freight have been found, nor have any arrests of any perpetrators behind the offense been reported. According to Russian law, an individual responsible for such a crime may be sentenced to up to six years in jail.
Source: Transport Police Office of the Central Federal District
