Detectives and analysts of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine worked out schemes to counter international crimes in the field of intellectual property. They discussed the role of cryptocurrency in investigations related to online trading platforms. This and other topics were discussed at the training "Border coordination: combating intellectual property crimes" held in Cluj-Napoca (Romania).

The study of the problems of investigating such crimes was conducted under the International computer hacking and intellectual property (ICHIP) program with the assistance of the U.S. Department of justice (Office of overseas prosecutorial development, assistance and training - OPDAT) and the U.S. Department of State (Bureau of the International narcotics and law enforcement affairs).

Colleagues from the Economic investigation department of the General inspectorate of Police of Romania shared their experience in investigating intellectual property crimes and practical cases. In their turn, detectives of the ESBU spoke about investigating the illegal use of trademarks of well-known brands of household chemicals, clothing and perfumes. The American colleagues gave an example of detecting a postal parcel in which artifacts stolen by russians from museums were sent from Ukraine under the guise of stones for an aquarium. The Americans also shared their experience of how to establish the facts of offenses by intercepting small parcels, as well as methods of detecting mail parcels in a large flow.

Recently, detectives of the Territorial Department ESBU in Poltava region exposed an underground workshop where clothes with counterfeit brands of well-known world brands were sewn. Read more https://esbu.gov.ua/en/news/esbu-in-poltava-region-exposed-an-underground-workshop-for-the-production-of-clothes-under-the-brands-of-well-known-brands