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26 January 2022

The Prosecutor's Office of the Central district of Minsk upheld in court the state prosecution in a criminal case against a 46-year-old resident of the capital, charged with illegal use of objects of industrial property rights, committed within a year after the administrative penalty imposition for the same violation.

The defendant sold and stored in his three sales pavilions on one of the city markets for the purpose of selling items of clothing marked “PUMA”, owned by the company “PUMA SE (DE)”, without any consent and availability of documents confirming the purchase products from representatives of the named company in Belarus.

Taking into account the evidence presented by the public prosecutor, the court issued a guilty verdict. Based on Part 2 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, the defendant was sentenced to a fine.

According to Article 46-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, in the order of special confiscation, the money received from the sale of counterfeit clothing and all items of such clothing seized at trade facilities were collected from the accused.

Source – General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus.


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