A man has been arrested and falsely labelled Double Goose brand T-shirts and other items worth about 10 million baht seized during police raids on four locations in two districts of Bangkok.
Double Goose is a plain, comfortable brand especially popular with middle-aged Thais.
Police from the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECSD) seized 136,022 items - 33,560 counterfeit T-shirts, cloth, sewing machines and other equipment used in the manufacture of the garments - in searches of four houses, operated by the same business, in Bang Bon and neibhbouring Bang Khunthian districts on Tuesday.
Thanayot Pongnarathorn was apprehended at the first house at Soi Ekkachai 109 in Bang Bon district. A total of 1,440 fake T-shirts were found in his house.
The team, led by ECSD chief Pol Maj Gen Piyapan Pingmuang, later searched another house in the same soi, where they seized 20,640 more fake T-shirts of the same brand.
More T-shirts, fabric and machines were seized from the two other houses in nearby Samae Dam area of Bang Khun Thian district. Police said the seized items were worth about 10 million baht in total.
Mr Thanayot was held in police custody for legal action.