On February 25, according to Ping'an Chongqing wechat news, recently, Chongqing police carried out network closing operations simultaneously in Guizhou, Hubei and other places, and cracked a super large case of selling fake wine. The case is the first case of that Chongqing police cracked. It adopts automatic mechanical process production and uses webcast drainage to bring goods.
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Police work found that some people in Enshi, Hubei Province sold high imitation Maotai brand liquor to the market through network platform drainage, and Qianjiang District of our city also had sales. The anti counterfeiting corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau immediately organized Qianjiang District Public Security Bureau to conduct further verification and quickly identified a criminal production line involving the production and sale of fake liquor in Hubei and Guizhou.
Since December 29, 2021, Chongqing police have been involved in joint operations in various police stations. They have been collecting nets in Renhuai, Hubei and Enshi in Guizhou. After 2 days of centralized arrest and inventory, the police have successfully destroyed the suspect and counterfeit liquor Gang headed by Wei and fan. They have arrested 24 suspects and destroyed 4 sites. more than 800 bottles of fake Maotai brand liquor products, more than 3000 kg of base liquor to be filled, 14 sets of counterfeit equipment and 27000 sets of packaging materials were found at the scene, the preliminary estimated amount involved was 100 million yuan.
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According to the investigation, since July 2020, Wei (male, from Enshi, Hubei) believed that copying high-end brand liquor could make huge profits, so he worked with someone (male, from Enshi, Hubei) and Li (male, from Enshi, Hubei) to make and sell high-end imitation Maotai brand liquor.
Wei and others bought the Maotai Baijiu based liquor from fan (male, Renhuai, Guizhou) from Guangdong, Guizhou and other places to purchase counterfeit brand labels, handbags, wine cup boxes, anti-counterfeiting identifier and other packaging materials as well as the capper, packaging machine, automatic labeling machine and other equipment. Packaging and batch production of high imitation Maotai brand liquor.
Qianjiang police investigation found that Wei and others pay great attention to the counterfeiting process. In the process of counterfeiting, they use new equipment to realize the automatic operation of the labeling process. The anti-counterfeiting chip used by is highly simulated and difficult to identify with the naked eye. in order to expand sales, Wei and others also hired "wanghong" to make a short video to identify the true and false Maotai brand liquor, register multiple accounts on an Internet short video platform, roll and play it, and promote it after accumulating popularity.
According to Wei and others, has successively produced and sold more than 20000 bottles of high imitation Maotai brand liquor.
