Shanghai police bust counterfeit store
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OFFICERS in Fengxian District in Shanghai detained two men who had set up an online store on the popular e-commerce site Taobao.com and sold fake Nike products.
Police traced the origin of the goods to Fijian Province.
Fengxian District police said they first heard of the store after being tipped off by the local intellectual property agency in April this year.
They caught up with the suspect, a man surnamed Chu, who was a postgraduate and worked for a scientific research institution.
Chu ran the online store which sold counterfeit branded shoes with his accomplice Zhao after work. These counterfeit Nike and New Balance sports shoes were bought from a seller, surnamed Peng, who lived in Putian, Fujian Province.
Chu earned more than 1.9 million yuan (US$300,000) from the sales of the fake goods between 2011 and 2014.
According to police, the real costs of a pair of Nike Air shoes was nearly 1,000 yuan but Chu sold them for several hundred yuan.
Peng reportedly earned 21.5 million yuan from sales nationwide, police said yesterday.
Meanwhile, Taobao.com also reported a jump in sales of counterfeit sports shoes in Shanghai which were also traced to Putian. The Shanghai police cooperated with Taobao’s owner Alibaba Group and checked the store owners’ accounts and delivery information. They found it had a sales network covering Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan provinces and Shanghai.
During the four-month investigation, eight members of the network were caught and more than 300 fake Nike shoes seized from them. Police said Peng had sold over 200,000 counterfeit branded shoes to Chu and the other people.
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