Word: counterfeited
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...Unless you count counterfeit software as Microsoft products, that claim is absurd?nine out of 10 personal computers sold in China come with pirated versions of Windows, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. But Beijing may have been sending a deeper message to Washington. The signal (as one Western diplomat put it): "We've got our own antiglobalization, antitrade zealots to deal with, so how about you keep yours under control and we'll do the same, because otherwise we're both in trouble...
...scandal-racked police force. A special rapid-reaction unit called a flex squad in the southwestern district was disbanded in December after one of its officers was accused of raping a detained woman before setting her free. A search of the precinct building turned up stashed narcotics and counterfeit DVDs. The charges came after years of rumored misconduct, and critics in the media say police brass let the unit continue to function primarily because the department's code of silence is not that much different from the one on the streets. "How will the department look now when...
...confidential report compiled by investigators working for a coalition of major U.S., European and Japanese tobacco companies indicates that North Korea has developed a highly lucrative source of hard currency: counterfeit cigarettes. The 11-page document, a copy of which was obtained by TIME, outlines in unprecedented detail the inner workings of this illicit business and the extent to which it may have led North Korea's rogue regime to ally itself with crime syndicates from mainland China and Taiwan...
...regime is being ratcheted up as the U.S. targets the country's various sources of dubious income. Last September, for example, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Banco Delta Asia in Macau as a "primary money laundering concern" and alleged that it facilitated the North's criminal activities by circulating counterfeit currency (charges the bank denied). And a senior Treasury Department official called on the South Korean government last week to help the U.S. combat the North's alleged involvement in such businesses as counterfeiting U.S. banknotes and exporting drugs...
...least two of the three deceased siblings from the Kocyigit family had succumbed to the virus' dreaded H5N1 strain, becoming its first human victims outside East Asia. As fears of a pandemic continue to grow, customs and health official's are struggling to halt a burgeoning trade in counterfeit forms of Tamiflu, the only drug approved to treat the disease. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials tell TIME that last week their officers seized 250 separate parcels of suspect Tamiflu at the airmail facility in New York City -- the biggest interception to date -- and one package in Chicago...