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Zhongnanhai Recruiting Wine", "*Recruiting Wine in the General Office of the Military Commission", "Special Liquor for Navy, Army and Air Force Units", "Drinking Wine for Reception of the Security Bureau" ......The cost price of 10 yuan a pound of base wine, the bottle is printed with the words "special supply", and a bottle can be sold for thousands of yuan.
Recently, Chongqing Wulong** detected a large case of making and selling fake wine, arrested 53 people involved in the case, destroyed a "special" fake wine packaging, production, wholesale sales network that radiated the whole country, and uncovered the inside story of the "special" fake wine black industry.
The relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that according to relevant regulations, the "special", "internal" and "exclusive" liquor currently circulating in the market are all illegal products.
The cost is dozens of yuan, and the selling price is 1,000 yuan after the "special supply" packaging.
In May 2021, the Public Security Bureau of Wulong District, Chongqing Municipality received a clue: Liao, the owner of a tobacco and liquor store in Wulong District, purchased 14 pieces of counterfeit liquor of a well-known brand. The purchase price of this batch of wine is about 600 yuan per bottle, and Liao sells it at 900 yuan to 1,600 yuan per bottle**.
Wulong** investigation found that Liao's fake wine was purchased from Chen. Through Chen, ** further excavated the upstream criminal chain of counterfeiting and selling.
Chen and his accomplice Cao and others confessed that the fake liquor they sold came from a counterfeiting den headed by Chen, Huang, and Xu in Renhuai City, Guizhou Province. The den produces a variety of counterfeit liquor for its order.
The police of the special case group found that among the various fake wines sold by Chen, the fake wines with the words "special supply", "internal supply" and "exclusive supply" were sold well. These "special" fake wines are filled with ordinary base wine, and the cost of wine is only about 10 yuan per catty, and the cost is only forty or fifty yuan with wine bottles and packaging boxes.
* It was found that the "special" fake liquor involved in the case not only illegally printed the same registered trademark as the well-known brand liquor on the packaging, but also suspected of trademark infringement; What's worse is that the packaging also prominently uses the words "special", "internal" and "exclusive" of the party, government and military organs, which seriously damages the reputation and image of state organs and the people's army.
* A large amount of counterfeit liquor and packaging materials were seized at the "special" fake dimple site. (Photo courtesy of Chongqing**) The "special", "internal" and "exclusive" liquor circulating in the market are all illegal products.
In this case, Chen confessed that he learned from an exchange with liquor practitioners that all kinds of "special" fake liquor had strong "storytelling" and high market acceptance, so his company transformed into selling "special" fake liquor. Chen, Cao and others have successively set up online sales companies and tobacco and alcohol stores in many places, and set up fake wine warehouses nearby, and sent gang backbones to various places to take the lead in operation.
Most of their target customers are "middle-aged", "male" and "small and medium-sized business owners" with "high social needs", and most of their sales staff are young people under the age of 35 with experience in online sales. Salespeople buy ** cards in bulk, register *** set WeChat avatars as young women, send women's voice messages from time to time, and post life information in the circle of friends to attract target customers.
At the same time, they pay attention to the rhythm of sales, and are not in a hurry to frequently promote wine advertisements point-to-point, but post them frequently in the circle of friends and at intervals in private chats. The sales staff used the unified "speech" in the chat, especially in the "July 1st", "August 1st", Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day, Spring Festival and other time nodes, claiming to customers that some departments cooperated with well-known liquor companies to launch "special" liquor, and the company obtained these "special" liquor through "special channel retention" and "limited seckill".
* Seized "special" counterfeit liquor. (Photo by Liu Xinyuan) According to the staff of a well-known brand liquor company, since the introduction of eight regulations in 2012, liquor companies have stopped the production of special liquor. In March 2013, the State Administration and other five departments jointly issued the "Notice on Strictly Prohibiting the Use of "Special Supply" and "Exclusive Supply" and Other Marks by ** and State Organs, which strictly prohibits the use, production and sale of items marked with "special" and "exclusive" by themselves or authorized by various departments of state organs and their subordinate administrative institutions. In November 2013, the former State Food and Drug Administration issued a notice requiring liquor companies not to produce liquor marked with the words "special", "exclusive", "special", "special" and "special".
In September 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation organized a special action to clean up and rectify online sales and publicize "special" and "exclusive" labeled goods. In 2022, six departments, including the Logistics Support Department of the Military Commission and the Ministry of Public Security, jointly issued the "Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of Tobacco and Alcohol and Other Commodities under the "Army" Brand.
Why is fake wine repeatedly banned?
*Introduction, "special" fake wine is very popular in some circles. Some consumers are willing to spend ** to buy this kind of wine for the purpose of collecting, gifting and so on.
* Seized "special" counterfeit liquor. (Photo by Ji Miao) Cases of "special supply" counterfeit wine have not been uncommon in recent years. From December 2021 to March 2022, Beijing** continued to carry out a special operation to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit wine, and successively cracked 25 cases of various types of fake wine, seized more than 40,000 bottles of fake wine and more than 40 pieces of packaging materials, including a large number of "special" wine.
The police handling the case said that after continuous crackdown and rectification in recent years, the flood of "special supply" counterfeit wine has been curbed to a certain extent, but there is still a risk of resurgence. In order to evade supervision, some "special" counterfeit liquor has been transferred to the "underground" for covert sales.
The interviewed police and law enforcement officers of the market supervision department suggested that the source control of counterfeiting should be further strengthened. For example, in view of the centralized circulation area of "special" fake wine packaging materials, relevant departments have implemented comprehensive policies and coordinated efforts to effectively control the illegal and criminal acts of packaging materials, and increased the investigation and punishment of logistics and delivery, so as to completely improve the source of counterfeiting crimes. At the same time, urge liquor enterprises and personnel to strengthen industry self-discipline, consciously abide by laws and regulations, and guide the healthy development of the industry.
The police handling the case said that the source of the "special" fake wine is unknown, and it is often filled with bulk wine by small workshops, which has quality and safety risks, and consumers must buy brand goods from formal channels when buying wine. If someone is found to be selling "special" wine, consumers can report it to the relevant departments such as market supervision in a timely manner.