On online shopping platforms, the price of limited edition and popular “ANTA brand” clothing is less than one-tenth of the original price, and there are also “flash sale” and “full discount” promotions. These products are actually produced on the assembly line of small workshops.
Recently, the Jinjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau officially released the situation of the “7.22” large-scale production and sale of counterfeit Anta brand sportswear cases uncovered by the bureau. More than 200,000 pieces of counterfeit finished clothing and more than 200,000 infringing trademarks were seized, and 12 suspects were arrested. names, with a cumulative amount of more than 200 million yuan involved.
In June this year, the Economic Investigation Brigade of the Jinjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report that someone was selling counterfeit Anta brand sportswear on an online shopping platform. Although the appearance of these products is similar to the original ones, there are big differences in materials and production processes. Jinjiang police attach great importance to this and dispatched nearly a thousand police officers to form a special work team to carry out preliminary investigations. After investigation, it was discovered that there are online shopping platforms and e-commerce stores selling counterfeit Anta brand sportswear, involving multiple provinces.
The Jinjiang police immediately reported the case to the higher-level public security organs. Under the unified command of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department and the Quanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, a task force was set up to carry out cross-provincial investigation work. After several months of continuous operations, the task force quickly found out the criminal gang’s production and sales bases of multiple counterfeit Anta brand sportswear, found out the gang’s operating model and personnel locations, and formulated a detailed plan to close the network. plan.
In October, the Quanzhou and Jinjiang public security organs mobilized more than 200 police officers to go to Sichuan, Shandong, Henan, Chongqing and other places to launch operations against counterfeit manufacturing and selling gangs, and arrested Lu (female, 43 years old, Henan) respectively. Person), Lin (male, 30 years old, from Sichuan) Li Mouyue (male, 28 years old, from Shandong), Li Moulu (female, 28 years old, from Henan), Xiao (male, 22 years old, from Chongqing) ) and other 12 criminal suspects, destroyed 10 illegal production dens, 6 warehousing dens, and 11 sales dens, and seized more than 200,000 counterfeit finished clothing products, more than 200,000 infringing trademarks, 9 computers, 15 mobile phones and There are several other tools for committing crimes, and the cumulative amount involved is more than 200 million yuan.
The entire chain was targeted from upstream production to downstream sales. Among the 12 suspects, 4 were e-commerce merchants, 1 was a wholesaler, and the others were responsible persons responsible for small workshops. According to the police, the gang targeted individual consumers who wanted to buy popular brand products at low prices. They selected best-selling products of many well-known brands, including Anta, for imitation production, and sold them through online channels to make huge profits.
“I was originally selling short version clothing online, but the business was not good, and then I thought about making fake brand clothing to sell.” The suspect, Chen, is 27 years old and is from Anqing, Anhui Province. He explained that he purchased blank clothing and trademark logos from the Internet, then processed and produced them using a heat transfer machine, and packaged them for sale. The official price is thousands of yuan, but the fake price is only more than 100 yuan. The police seized 434 pieces of counterfeit finished clothing products and 6,150 infringing trademarks in Chen’s workshop. Chen confessed that he started making and selling counterfeit goods in April 2020, and his sales in the past two years have reached more than 5.7 million yuan.
At present, Jinjiang police have arrested relevant criminal suspects in accordance with the law on suspicion of counterfeiting registered trademarks and selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks.
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