Police claim big gains in battle against piracy

The Ministry of Public Security has released figures from its yearlong crackdown on the sale of counterfeit and shoddy products, including fake drugs, many of them sold online.

At a news conference on Tuesday, officials said that police had solved an average of 151 cases of counterfeiting and arrested 162 suspectsevery day in 2013.

They also seized a record 300 million capsules containing fake medicines, having identified many routes for online sales.