Xinmin Evening News (Correspondent Tan Jiayi, Reporter Tu Yu) At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, liquor consumption heated up. In the face of the current situation of large demand for well-known brand liquor before the festival and huge profits, counterfeiters have "faked" liquor in real bottles, and with manufacturing costs ranging from hundreds of yuan, it can be made into well-known brand liquor sold in just a few minutes.
Caption: A display of the items involved in the case seized in the case. **Courtesy of the image.
Recently, the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Jinshan Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau found through market inspections that some people sold well-known brand liquor far below the market price, and the quantity was huge, which attracted the most attention. Through the line of investigation, it was found that these brands of liquor were counterfeit, mainly in Li and Xie who lived in this city. Through investigation, it was found that Li and Xie rented warehouses on the outskirts of the city to store the purchased counterfeit brand liquor packaging materials, stacked a large number of empty bottles of high-grade liquor, and other low-priced liquor and loose liquor. Judging by **, this is a den for the private processing and production of counterfeit brand liquor. After in-depth investigation, ** found out the sales channels and final flow of fake wine, and locked Tang and others, who operated a cigarette hotel.
On January 26, 2024, under the guidance of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Corps of the Municipal Bureau, Shanghai Jinshan ** organized capable police forces to carry out centralized arrest operations in 5 districts of the city and a place in Hubei Province, smashed 8 criminal dens for the production and sale of counterfeit well-known brand liquor, arrested 14 criminal suspects such as Li and Xie, and seized more than 2,000 bottles of counterfeit well-known brand high-grade liquor and more than 700 sets of counterfeit outer packaging.
After investigation, from March 2022, criminal suspects Xie Mou, Li Mou and others have set up counterfeiting dens in many places in the city to recruit people in order to seek illegal benefits. Knowing that there is no authorization from the brand owner and the on-site environment is poor, he purchased bulk blended high-grade liquor and low-priced liquor and filled it into well-known brand high-end brand liquor bottles and processed it with labeling, packaging and other processes, and then wholesaled it to criminal suspect Tang and others, who distributed it in the cigarette hotel they opened, and the amount involved was as high as more than 1,000 yuan.
At present, 11 people, including criminal suspects Xie and Li, have been taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law on suspicion of counterfeiting registered trademarks and selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, and the remaining 3 people have been educated and reprimanded for minor circumstances, and the case is being further tried.
*Tips: If consumers need to buy well-known brand liquor, they should go to regular supermarkets or qualified chain stores to buy, and keep invoices and shopping vouchers. Special reminder, once you find a quality problem, please report it to the market supervision department immediately, and report it in time if you are involved in illegal and criminal clues.