KRASNOYARSK, October 31 (RIA Novosti, Boris Ivanov) - Police in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk have confiscated more than 280,000 pirated CDs and videos in a raid, a senior official said Monday. Yury Semesko said police had also discovered labels, cases, and other accessories in a storeroom, and seized over a million rubles ($35,000) from the safe of an underground firm.
Police experts said the firm had used "good quality equipment". A packing machine found at the site, for example, cost $20,000.
All the materials and end products had been delivered to and from Krasnoyarsk, which is about 2,500 miles from Moscow, by air.
