Nintendo announced that a series of raids on a major Guadalajara "fayuca" (contraband) market netted 15,000 counterfeit Nintendo products, including 4,500 Wii game discs. The raids targeted 12 alleged distributors who are known to be major sellers of counterfeit Nintendo goods. The raids in Guadalajara come hot on the heels of other raids in Mexico over the past few months spurred on by Nintendo's attempt to clamp-down on counterfeiters. Last month, Nintendo worked with customs agents to stop a shipment of more than 5,500 counterfeit products, which had been exported from China, from entering Manzanillo. Before that, Nintendo assisted local authorities in a raid of the San Juan de Dios market in Guadalajara, where 23 stores were shut down and more than 56,000 counterfeit Nintendo products were confiscated, including 11,000 counterfeit Wii discs. In a statement made after the most recent raids, Jodi Daugherty, Nintendo of America's senior director of anti-piracy said, "Mexico is Nintendo's largest market in Latin America, where the problem of video game piracy is widespread. Since January, Nintendo has worked with law enforcement agencies worldwide to seize 100,000 counterfeit Wii games." As part of an investigation into the alleged sale and distribution of illegal Wii modification chips, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents executed 32 federal search warrants in 16 states earlier this month. These mod chips are what allows the system to play the counterfeit games. Nintendo and its developers lost an estimated $762 million in 2006 to software pirates. Source