Hundreds of pieces of fake designer clothes and shoes seized by authorities as part of a clampdown on counterfeit goods have been donated to poor families. Around 885 items of clothing and 780 pairs of shoes were handed to the Emirates Red Crescent’s Keeping Grace Project to be distributed to people in need.
They were among 500,000 counterfeit auto parts, cosmetics, electric appliances, tobacco and foodstuff and other items worth a total of Dhs 22.4 million confiscated by the Department of Economic Development. The fakes were seized during 60 inspection raids and 6,436 field visits conducted last year in joint campaigns by the municipalities of Abu Dhabi Al Ain and the Western Region, Abu Dhabi Police, Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, Abu Dhabi Quality & Conformity Council and Waste Management Centre Abu Dhabi. Items that were not donated to charity were destroyed.