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Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement
that the perpetrators of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which
killed 191 people, raised illicit proceeds from the sale of pirated
CDs and DVDs; and more recently, that those behind the Paris
(Charlie Hebdo) terrorist attacks in January 2015, which killed
17 people, raised illicit proceeds from the sale of counterfeit
footwear and apparel. See, e.g., John Mintz and Douglas Farah,
“Small Scams Probed for Terror Ties,” (The Washington Post:
Aug. 12, 2002), accessed from https://www.washingtonpost.
com/archive/politics/2002/08/12/small-scams-probed-for-terrorties/acfb904e-002e-49c2-a531-8c7c2e46573b/;
Kaplan, Eben,
“Tracking Down Terrorist Financing,” (April 4, 2006), accessed
from http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-financing/tracking-down-terrorist-financing/p10356;
International Herald Tribune, “Counterfeit
goods are linked to terror groups,” (February 12, 2007),
accessed from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/business/
worldbusiness/12iht-fake.4569452.html; Yan, Holly, “Suspected
ringleader of Belgian terror cell sought,” (CNN.com: January
19, 2015) (“Sales of counterfeit goods by Charlie Hebdo
attacker Cherif Kouachi helped fund the purchase of weapons,
a source familiar with the ongoing investigation in France
told CNN”), accessed from http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/
europe/europe-terror-threat/; Union des Fabricants (UNI-
FAB), “Counterfeiting and Terrorism – Edition 2016,” at
p.14, accessed from http://www.unifab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rapport-A-Terrorisme-2015_GB_22.pdf.
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See, e.g., Jay Solomon and Gordon Fairclough, “North
Korea’s Counterfeit Goods Targeted” (The Wall Street Journal:
June 1, 2005) (reporting that since Sept. 11, 2001, North Korea’s
sales of counterfeit products, namely counterfeit cigarettes
and pharmaceuticals, have grown exponentially from $100
million to $500 million annually), accessed from http://www.
wsj.com/articles/SB111756528456047297; Ryall, Julian, “North
Korea branches out into ivory, fake cigarette and pharmaceutical
trade” (The Telegraph: April 12, 2014), accessed from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10766587/North-Korea-branches-out-into-ivory-fake-cigarette-and-pharmaceutical-trade.html;
Yi Whan-woo, “N. Korea
Selling Counterfeit Money To Terrorists” (The Korean Times:
June 27, 2016) (reporting that the “cash-strapped regime may
try to expand trafficking networks in drugs, weapons, cigarettes,
and counterfeit luxury goods as alternative means to
generate hard currency following a series of sanctions against
it.”), accessed from http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/
nation/2016/06/485_207990.html; The White House, Office of
the Press Secretary, “Statement by the Press Secretary on the
Executive Order Entitled ‘Imposing Additional Sanctions with
Respect to North Korea’,” (January 2, 2015) (naming the Government
of North Korea as the actor of the “destructive and coercive
cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment”), accessed
from https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/02/
statement-press-secretary-executive-order-entitled-imposing-additional-s.
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See Statement of Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Director, United
States Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Division, Before
the Senate Judiciary Committee (June 21, 2011), accessed
from https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/intellectual-property-law-enforcement-efforts.
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See The White House, “Strategy to Combat Transnational
Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National
Security,” (July 2011), accessed from https://www.whitehouse.
gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf.
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