8 booted into jail for selling counterfeit Converse shoes
By Li Qian |
November 10, 2012, Saturday
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EIGHT people have been imprisoned from two-and-a-half to six years for selling counterfeit athletic shoes online worth more than 18 million yuan (US$2.88 million) in Fujian Province, Xiamen Daily reported yesterday.
With the help of a man surnamed Lin, the ringleaders surnamed Xu and Wang opened several stores on Taobao.com, the country's biggest e-commerce site, and sold fake Converse sneakers from 40 yuan to 50 yuan per pair, about 10 percent the regular price.
Lin and Wang were sentenced to six years. Lin was also fined 3.5 million yuan while Wang was fined 4 million yuan. Xu is still at large.
Six others were sentenced to two-and-a-half to four years in jail. Four of the eight convicts are college graduates. It is the biggest case of its kind in Fujian, the paper said.
Xu and Wang started selling the fake shoes in July 2010 and sales were good.
They purchased more bogus Converse shoes and opened several online stores, such as Converse Headmaster 123 and Converse Franchise, according to the report.
As their business expanded from Xiamen to Fuzhou, the province's capital, Lin rented a warehouse and several offices.
The ring was well-organized. An express delivery worker told the newspaper they would deliver 10,000 packages from Xu in a month.
The business ended a month later after a customer found a new pair of sneakers wore out shortly and reported to police.
In August 2010, police raided the warehouse, seizing 80,000 pairs of counterfeit shoes valued at 18.79 million yuan. Lin was arrested on December 7, 2010. Wang surrendered to police in January 2011, the report said.
"I regret what I have done," Lin told the court, according to the report. "I would chose to be a decent person if I was given a chance to go back."
E-commerce has become the latest way to sell counterfeit items and it's hard to catch the operators.
The judge said people will be identified as law breakers if they sell fake goods worth more than 50,000 yuan. Such offenders face up to seven years behind bars if they earn up to 250,000 yuan, according to the report.
With the help of a man surnamed Lin, the ringleaders surnamed Xu and Wang opened several stores on Taobao.com, the country's biggest e-commerce site, and sold fake Converse sneakers from 40 yuan to 50 yuan per pair, about 10 percent the regular price.
Lin and Wang were sentenced to six years. Lin was also fined 3.5 million yuan while Wang was fined 4 million yuan. Xu is still at large.
Six others were sentenced to two-and-a-half to four years in jail. Four of the eight convicts are college graduates. It is the biggest case of its kind in Fujian, the paper said.
Xu and Wang started selling the fake shoes in July 2010 and sales were good.
They purchased more bogus Converse shoes and opened several online stores, such as Converse Headmaster 123 and Converse Franchise, according to the report.
As their business expanded from Xiamen to Fuzhou, the province's capital, Lin rented a warehouse and several offices.
The ring was well-organized. An express delivery worker told the newspaper they would deliver 10,000 packages from Xu in a month.
The business ended a month later after a customer found a new pair of sneakers wore out shortly and reported to police.
In August 2010, police raided the warehouse, seizing 80,000 pairs of counterfeit shoes valued at 18.79 million yuan. Lin was arrested on December 7, 2010. Wang surrendered to police in January 2011, the report said.
"I regret what I have done," Lin told the court, according to the report. "I would chose to be a decent person if I was given a chance to go back."
E-commerce has become the latest way to sell counterfeit items and it's hard to catch the operators.
The judge said people will be identified as law breakers if they sell fake goods worth more than 50,000 yuan. Such offenders face up to seven years behind bars if they earn up to 250,000 yuan, according to the report.
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