MDTCC Seizes RM10 Million in 2011
27 August 2012
Malaysia’s Enforcement Division of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (MDTCC) have conducted 74 raids against companies suspected of using pirated software since last year. MDTCC has seized some RM10 million (US$3.26 million) of hardware and software.
Mohd Roslan Mahayudin, MDTCC’s Director of Enforcement, said that 61 raids, with seizures worth RM8.2 million, were conducted in 2011.
“This year, the enforcement actions had already begun with a total of 13 raids successfully undertaken, resulting in the seizure of 53 computers and peripherals along with 214 copies of suspected pirated software, worth an estimated RM1.8 million,” the Bernama news agency reported Mahayudin as saying.
“The Enforcement Division of the MDTCC will continue its campaign to aggressively stamp out corporate end-user software piracy,” he said in a statement in Kuala Lumpur.
