news

한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina

on august 24, more than 100 boxes of fake and inferior mid- to high-end liquor were neatly stacked in a waste recycling station in shuimogou district, urumqi, xinjiang. with the order of the police, the destruction operation officially began. bottles of fake and inferior liquor were poured into the chemical agent pool, and at the same time, the bottles were smashed one by one. the entire destruction process lasted more than an hour, and more than a ton of fake liquor was destroyed according to law. at this point, the fake liquor case that lasted more than a year was closed.

the tobacco and alcohol company that has received “constant praise”

at the beginning of 2023, the shuimogou district branch of the urumqi municipal public security bureau received a report from the public that the high-end liquor sold in a tobacco and alcohol store in the area was suspected to be fake. after receiving the report, the police launched an investigation based on relevant clues, and a store owner revealed the "business philosophy" of the store.

"we often buy goods from their store." the store owner said that this tobacco and liquor store can provide as many mid- to high-end liquors as you want, and pays at the "purchase price" or even lower. with a stable supply and affordable prices, this tobacco and liquor store has received continuous praise for a period of time and its business is very prosperous.

after learning about this situation, the police were very confused. what is the point of doing business if you don’t make money? at first, the store owner had the same confusion, but every time the other party allowed the buyer to open the box for inspection, and the liquor sold did not receive any questions from the customer, so he dispelled his doubts.

quality problem? still not making a profit from the price difference? in order to find out the truth, the police expanded the scope of their visit and conducted a lot of investigations. they found that the amount of liquor sold by the liquor manufacturer to the tobacco and liquor store was very different from the amount it sold, and the sales amount was nearly doubled.

buy less, sell more, where do these liquors come from? the police had new questions. after discovering the abnormality of the suspicious van, the police immediately reported it to the higher-level public security organs and opened a case for investigation. not long after, the police found a white van with many suspicious points during the squatting process. the van did not belong to any liquor sales manufacturer, but it often delivered various types of mid-to-high-end liquors to the business.

the police tracked the truck and found two people in it. in just one afternoon, they delivered goods to five tobacco and alcohol stores, most of which were mid- to high-end liquor. after the delivery, the truck drove into a remote courtyard, stayed there for half an hour, and then left.

the police were divided into two groups. one group continued to follow the suspects, while the other group went into the yard to investigate. they found a small bungalow at the corner filled with liquor, which was hard to tell whether it was real or fake. soon after, another group of police received news that the truck had stopped in a residential area and two people in the truck had walked into a self-built house.

to avoid alerting the suspects, the police waited until the two men left the next day before entering the self-built house for investigation. a strong smell of alcohol hit them, and through the window, the police saw a large number of wine bottles and packaging boxes of various liquors piled up in the house. based on various signs at the scene, the police judged that this was most likely a liquor counterfeiting den.

after investigation, it was learned that the two men in the truck were named li gang (pseudonym) and li qiang (pseudonym). they were cousins ​​and had no fixed jobs. after a month of investigation, the police found the location of the counterfeiting gang and its sales channels. the brothers' "self-study journey"

in june last year, the police launched a crackdown operation, arrested two suspects, two counterfeiting dens, three counterfeit liquor warehouses, and nine tobacco and alcohol stores involved in the case. they also seized more than one ton of mid- to high-end liquors such as moutai and wuliangye. according to professional organizations, the amount involved in the case reached more than 1.5 million yuan. the police estimated that, including the counterfeit liquor that had been sold, the two may have produced more than 4 tons of counterfeit liquor, making an illegal profit of more than 700,000 yuan.

in 2022, brothers li gang and li qiang wanted to make more money due to their tight financial situation, so they set their sights on the lucrative counterfeit liquor industry. "after watching a video online, i had an evil idea!" li gang said that the anchor in the video randomly looked for passers-by to taste liquor and identify the grade and authenticity. most people could not tell the difference, which made the two see business opportunities.

afterwards, the two brothers bought various types of mid- to high-end liquors and tasted them themselves, and found that the taste of high-end liquors was very similar to that of some bulk liquors. so, the two began to look up information online to learn about the production process of liquors.

“all of our wines are blended with bulk wine and essence!” said li gang. both of us have a low level of education, but we searched for information online, studied, and researched, and then practiced and tasted the wines many times, constantly comparing them with real wines. after nearly a hundred attempts and changes in the blending ratios, we finally succeeded in the experiment.

after solving the taste problem, the two began to think about the problem of wine bottles and packaging boxes. "wine bottles can be recycled locally or bought at recycling stations, but packaging boxes are difficult to deal with!" li qiang told the police that the two brothers often squatted in some tobacco and alcohol stores, and then stole the white wine boxes thrown away by the store owners when they were not paying attention.

but the packaging boxes obtained through these methods were obviously not enough. soon, li qiang looked for people selling packaging boxes and cartons of high-end liquor on the internet and purchased them in large quantities.

in october 2022, the first batch of counterfeit liquor produced by the two was sold out. the two gradually became bolder and began to produce and sell in large quantities. in order to conceal their tracks, the two completed all the production and sales processes personally, and even their families knew nothing about it. opening up the sales market

as for how to open up the sales market, the two brothers said it has something to do with the merchants’ greed for profit.

li gang said that at the beginning, sales were hindered by many obstacles. most stores had their own fixed suppliers and were not interested in wine of unknown origin. but during a "sweeping the street" sales, wang yong (pseudonym), the head of a tobacco and wine store, was very "interested". although wang yong found out that the wine was fake on the spot, after tasting it, he actually expressed his willingness to cooperate. the reason was: the price was low.

after negotiation, wang yong lowered the price to buy the liquor, and he was only willing to buy it for 20 yuan, or even lower, for a bottle of liquor that was priced at more than 100 yuan in the market. he also promised to introduce other tobacco and liquor stores to the two. although the li gang brothers were dissatisfied, they had no choice but to agree in order to open up sales channels. the police learned that when wang yong and others were selling this batch of fake liquor, they provided genuine products at the beginning. after gaining the trust of the other party, they began to mix the real and fake products. in the end, there were more fakes than real ones.

in this way, the brothers' illegal activities were not stopped in time, but became bigger and stronger, forming a stable manufacturing and trafficking gang. under the operation of the gang, batches of counterfeit and inferior liquor flowed into the market until they were "wiped out" by the public security organs.

at the end of april this year, the court ruled that the defendants li gang and li qiang were guilty of selling counterfeit registered trademarks. li gang was sentenced to three years and six months in prison, li qiang was sentenced to three years in prison, and fined 200,000 yuan. other persons involved in the case were also dealt with according to law, and the relevant tobacco and alcohol stores involved in the case have been transferred to the market supervision and management department for punishment.