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Earlier today we reported on “the biggest money laundering case in the history of Pakistan”, which has seen local authorities arrest the CEO of Digitonics Lab, as well as a number of other individuals, who are charged with allegedly operating over 200 fraudulent websites, including low-cost trademark filing platforms. New evidence suggests that other platforms could be linked to the organisation, which in total have filed thousands of trademark applications at the USPTO over the past 12 months.