Authorities have caught two Ho Chi Minh City-based firms printing more than 15,000 pirated copies of books and 2024 calendars, with a combined weight exceeding 15 metric tons.

Police officers from the Ministry of Public Security and the city, in coordination with inspectors from the municipal Department of Information and Communications on Monday morning raided Kien A Packing Production and Trading Service Company in the city’s outlying Cu Chi District.

The company was caught with 3,000 illegally printed copies of ‘Kinh Truong Tho diet toi’ (Long-life sutra destroys sins) from Ton giao (religion) Publishing House and 9,000 illegally printed copies of 'Sherlock Holmes' from the Writers’ Association Publishing House. The combined weight of the books was 10 metric tons.

Authorities had not given their approval for the books to be printed. All of the illegally copies have since been seized.

Pirated copies of books. Photo: Quang Viet / Tuoi Tre

Earlier, on October 1, authorities found that Hi-speed Printing Service Trading Company in Nha Be District had illegally printed over 3,000 2024 calendars weighing a total of five metric tons. The calendars were seized as per prevailing regulations.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, book piracy has become an increasingly complicated issue and the ministry will work with provincial and municipal police departments to ramp up efforts to detect and handle individuals and businesses that violate regulations in the publishing and printing industry.

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