 Operation Monitor Eye was kick-started by the Egyptian government. They co-hosted an economic forum in Hougada and as a result of discussions around the economic forum they decided to embark on this unprecedented two months of focused action against illicit trade and counterfeiting. Interpol supported the Egyptian government throughout the operation in a variety of ways initially with an intensive training program which was designed to raise awareness, designed to educate the law enforcement agencies to the particular types of illicit trade and counterfeiting. The outcomes as a result of the focused operation were really quite remarkable. The types of product that were seized also included not only typical what we see from counterfeiting and illicit trade but also works of art. Over 140 pieces of works of art which go back to the Ali dynasty which was the informative forming times of the of what is now recognized as modern Egypt being exported to the United States, valued as priceless by the Egyptian government having been stolen over a number of years from various museums having been stolen from the Minister of Culture's warehouses and were seized by law enforcement agents under the umbrella of this particular operation.