Watch out! Wuxi police cracked the online sale of fake Nestle coffee worth 1.2 million yuan

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Some lawbreakers sell fake branded coffee online in response to the popularity of instant coffee. Yesterday, the police learned from the Xinwu police that according to the clues, the police cracked a counterfeit registered trademark case, seized nearly 20,000 counterfeit brand coffee, and arrested 10 suspects.

The police station of the International Science and Technology Park recently received a report from Nestl é that it found someone selling fake Nestle instant coffee on the market. After the police found the relevant shop, the shop reported that he had bought 20 cases of coffee from Wechat and did not know that it was a fake. The police investigated the fake brands of coffee and found that the seller and the manufacturer were not in the same place and they communicated through a middleman. These people usually do not see each other, they use Wechat to chat and click on their mobile phones to complete a transaction.

After further investigation, the police found that the coffee-making den was located in Shantou, Guangdong, while the salesperson was as far away as Liaoning. This manufacturing den is actually a small workshop, hidden in a residential area, where workers open a fake packaging bag, add a few spoonfuls of coffee raw materials purchased by themselves, and then package them with a packaging machine, and so on. A box of Nestle instant coffee with a market price of tens of yuan is produced. The police arrested Lin and other six suspects locally and seized packing boxes, sealing machines, packaging machines and other articles. Subsequently, the police arrested Lu, the supplier of counterfeit bags, and went to Liaoning to arrest Zhao and other two salespeople, and Wang, a middleman, in Henan. It is understood that Zhao, who is a WeChat businessman, also produces coffee himself, but the sales of his own brand of coffee are not good, so he wants to make a profit by selling fake brand coffee.

The police handling the case said that the gang's fake brand coffee was sold in boxes, and the whole box was divided into two types: large plastic bags and cartons, and the price of a box was nearly 100 yuan cheaper than the market price. To this end, the police reminded shopkeepers and consumers to be cautious about the goods sold by WeChat merchants and try to buy brands and quality-guaranteed instant coffee from formal channels. This time, the police seized more than 19000 unsold fake brand coffee, more than 2600 outer boxes and more than 26000 bags. According to investigation, the suspect sold the finished products to Jiangsu, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, with a sales amount of more than 1.2 million yuan. At present, 10 suspects have been taken criminal compulsory measures, and the case is under further investigation.

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