{"id":9949,"date":"2019-02-22T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:45:47","slug":"11883-pairs-of-fake-branded-footwear-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=9949","title":{"rendered":"11,883 pairs of fake branded footwear seized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9951\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/seizd-1.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry Enforcement Director Datuk Iskandar Halim Sulaiman (3rd R) together with other enforcement officers present the items seized, on Feb 21, 2019. \u2014 Bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia Feb 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; A total of 11,883 pairs of casual shoes, football boots <g class=\"gr_ gr_32 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"32\" data-gr-id=\"32\">and<\/g> slippers that were imitations of leading international brands were seized at a store in a shopping complex at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shoes were being sold on social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry Enforcement Director Datuk Iskandar Halim Sulaiman said the fake footwear sold carried brand names like Puma, Converse and Tommy Hilfiger and were worth RM324,110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the cost of producing a pair just amounted to RM25 were advertised on social media at RM100, which is much cheaper than the original product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen customers enquired on social media as to why the shoes were being sold at a low price, the reason given was that it was an online business and did not operate from a shoplot or office,\u201d he told a press conference at the ministry here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iskandar Halim said no arrests were made during the raid but the ministry was tracking down the store owner. \u2014&nbsp;<em>Bernama<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia Feb 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; A total of 11,883 pairs of casual shoes, football boots and slippers that were imitations of leading international brands were seized at a store in a shopping complex at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The shoes were being sold on social media platforms. Domestic Trade and Consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}