Related News
Police arrest 6 in fake toy racket
Six people have been caught for allegedly producing and selling fake toys based on the South Korean anime 鈥淢iniforce,鈥 police said yesterday.
The toys were sold under a different brand name but were almost identical to the authentic items, they added.
Police in Xuhui District started their investigation after receiving a report from the holder of the toys鈥 copyright.
The toys were sold on the Internet at prices lower than their authentic counterparts, and the manufacturer indicated on the packaging, a company known as Tengxing, doesn鈥檛 exist, police said.
Through their investigation, police found that a toy store on Meilong Road was selling the fake toys, and the owner of the store bought the toys from a woman surnamed Liu in Guangdong Province.
Liu was a saleswoman for a toy factory in Shantou city in that province called Hanhui, a factory registered to a man surnamed Chen. The factory had about 50 workers and produced about 1,000 toys per day, according to the police.
Police raided the factory recently and seized over 20,000 fake toys from the premises and six other warehouses.
Chen has allegedly confessed and said he started to produce the fake toys at his factory in May last year, for sale around the country.
Qiu Zhengtan, a representative of the copyright holder, said the fake toys were produced with recycled plastics which could easily break and injure children.
鈥淭he fakes used plastics of inferior quality, which have a pungent smell that is bad for the health of both users and the workers who produced them,鈥 Qiu claimed.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS
- |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔$粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.