Luxury brand shoes sell for tens of yuan and spend 5 yuan with a "certificate"?
Liwan police smashed a criminal gang suspected of producing and selling counterfeit well-known brand shoes
A few thousand yuan of luxury brand shoes "factory direct sales" only cost tens of hundreds of yuan?
Recently, Guangzhou Liwan police destroyed a criminal gang suspected of producing and selling counterfeit well-known brand shoes, destroyed 1 production den and 2 storage dens, arrested 13 suspects of producing and selling counterfeit registered trademarks, and seized production tools, counterfeit trademarks, and transportation. A batch of vehicles and more than 7,000 pairs of finished shoes are worth about 12 million yuan.
This has effectively deterred criminals producing and selling fakes and maintained normal market order.
Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Li Dong Correspondents Liu Hanli, Yang Minghua, Chen Yumin
Fake brand-name shoes produced in rental houses
At the beginning of April this year, some people reported that in the open space of a basketball stadium in Qiaozhong Road, Liwan District, some people used containers to convert into a temporary market to sell counterfeit luxury brand shoes and purchase complete sets of fake receipt certificates.
After receiving the report, the Liwan police quickly intervened in the investigation, cooperated with the market supervision department to seal up the scene, interviewed the site management, and actively investigated clues and collected evidence.
The police investigation found that the temporary bazaar was constructed of multiple containers and divided into dozens of stalls for rent. The bazaar was centralized, wholesale, and retail. Some of the finished shoes were counterfeit well-known brand products, claiming to be "factory direct sales." , The original price of genuine shoes is thousands of yuan, here only sells a pair of tens to hundreds of yuan, and from the appearance of the high degree of simulation, buyers can also pay an additional 5 yuan to buy the corresponding brand’s "certificate" "To satisfy the vanity of individual buyers.
The police learned that these merchants are mainly engaged in the shoe material business, and use the market as a transit point for online e-commerce, and some of the business operators switch from physical sales to online sales, and deliver them to their door after receiving the order, establishing a hidden illegality Transaction chain.
After several consecutive days of investigations and investigations, the Liwan Police have obtained information about the persons involved in the case.
On the evening of April 19, when the time was right to close the Internet, the Liwan Police organized police forces and divided them into two groups. They destroyed 1 production den in Foshan, 2 storage and sales outlets in Guangzhou, and seized a batch of crime tools, counterfeit trademarks, and finished shoes. More than 1,000 pairs, and 11 suspects including Zheng were arrested.
According to preliminary investigations, the criminal gang selling counterfeit brand-name shoes, led by Zheng, rented a house in an urban village in Huangqi Town, Nanhai, Foshan, hired personnel to produce fake brand-name shoes, and transported them from Huangqi to the bridge in Liwan District in a van. Reuse the convenient transportation and logistics industry in the middle of the bridge and sell them online.
The police handling the case told reporters that the counterfeit brand-name shoes seized at the production dens in Foshan involved more than 100 well-known brand-name brands. In addition to some of them were shipped to the temporary market in Qiaozhong, Liwan District, they were also sold online through e-commerce platforms and micro-commerce.
Buy fake shoes from Fujian for distribution in Guangzhou
It is reported that in addition to producing counterfeit brand-name shoes by itself, the gang also transported the shoes that could not be made to Guangzhou for sale.
Subsequently, the Liwan police dig deep and grasp a clue to use a large truck to transport fake shoes from a certain place in Fujian to Guangzhou for distribution.
After the police handling the case grasped the location of the large truck, they went to an ambush on the morning of April 22 and successfully arrested two suspects including Wang who were trading on Zhanxi Road, Liwan District, and seized a transport truck and 6000 counterfeit brand-name finished shoes on the spot. Many pairs.
According to preliminary verification, the suspect Wang and others used large trucks to buy a large number of finished shoes from a certain place in Fujian in batches according to local order requirements, and distributed them to a shoe wholesale market on Zhanxi Road for profit.
The gang has a large volume of imports and exports, and the hidden market is highly concealed, which seriously disrupts the market order.
Currently, the case is under further investigation.