6 arrested, 23 million yuan involved! A fake vaping device manufacturing and sales ring busted in Ta
In Taihe County, Jiangxi, nearly 5,000 counterfeit e-cigarettes were flowing into the market every day from two illegal workshops disguised as rural courtyards. So far, a total of 418,000 counterfeit e-cigarettes have been produced, with the case involving more than 23 million yuan.
In mid-May, the Taihe County Public Security Bureau captured the last suspect in the counterfeit e-cigarette case. With that, all six suspects were brought to justice. Behind the case, a full criminal chain involving order-taking, counterfeiting, shipping, and sales gradually came to light.
In March this year, the Taihe County Public Security Bureau received a tip-off that people in Guanxi Town and Yuanqian Town were suspected of producing and selling counterfeit branded e-cigarettes.
The Taihe County Public Security Bureau attached great importance to the case and immediately formed a special task force to investigate. After in-depth investigation, a large criminal chain involving the illegal manufacture and sale of counterfeit registered-trademark e-cigarettes emerged.
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The operation used two rural courtyards in Guanxi Town and Yuanqian Town as counterfeit e-cigarette production sites. The suspects sourced raw materials for e-cigarettes through online purchases, counterfeited the trademarks and outer packaging of multiple well-known e-cigarette brands, and after making the finished products, transported them via Huolala for sale in Guangdong.
After more than two months of cross-provincial investigation, police identified the locations of the two dens, raided them in one operation, arrested six suspects, and seized more than 43,000 counterfeit finished e-cigarettes at the scene.
Investigations found that the six suspects, including a man surnamed Dai, hired local villagers in Guanxi Town and Yuanqian to assemble e-cigarette parts into finished products. The six suspects admitted that they processed, assembled, and sold branded e-cigarettes without authorization from the brand owners or the required legal procedures.
At present, the six suspects, including Dai, have been criminally detained, and the case remains under further investigation.
