Have you caught the woman who made a fortune selling fake medicines on WeChat?
Currently, the criminal suspects Fang and Zhang have been detained.
The process of solving the case
The clues of fake goods on the market led to a WeChat number. The Food and Drug Crime Investigation Detachment of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched more than 40 police officers, and with the help of data from the Anti-Counterfeiting Special Team of the Alibaba Platform Management Department, it took 8 months and a round trip of 13,000 kilometers across three provinces to successfully crack the "6·12 sales" Case of Counterfeiting Registered Trademark Products”.
In June 2016, some manufacturers reported that their health products had been counterfeited by criminals. After the Food and Drug Investigation Detachment of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau intervened, they discovered that a well-known brand of intestinal health care products were fake on the market. However, the only valid information the police had at the time was the suspect's WeChat number and a Taobao account. The information was disguised by criminals, and the investigation work reached a deadlock.
At this difficult moment, the Food and Drug Investigation Detachment established a task force and decided to use the Taobao store opened by the suspect as a breakthrough point and contacted the special team of the Alibaba Platform Management Department. With his assistance, the police quickly grasped the suspect's offline information.
The task force immediately went to Jilin, Jiangxi and other places. With the further support of Alibaba’s technical team, they successively eliminated three illegal counterfeit manufacturing and selling dens.
In the dens of counterfeiting and selling, the task force seized a variety of health foods with counterfeit registered trademarks, a large number of counterfeit product packaging materials and counterfeiting tools, and illegally traded drugs. According to preliminary statistics, these counterfeit products Medicines and fake health products were sold in 25 provinces and cities across the country, and the amount involved amounted to more than 12 million yuan.
Crime
The suspect Fang is a woman born in the 1990s. After investigation, it was found that Fang had opened four stores on Taobao since 2014, but all of them were due to Counterfeit sales are handled by the Taobao platform. But she did not give up and embarked on an "evil path". Fang disguised the pictures and texts of the treasures sold in the store and described them with words such as "postage special photos" and "old customers special photos", which will attract Incoming customers are diverted to WeChat and other platforms for transactions. After the passenger flow increased, Fang even rented a storefront to open a logistics express point and shipped goods by himself. Starting in June 2015, the suspect Zhang (pseudonym) began to purchase goods from Fang, adding drugs he illegally dealt in, and selling them at a markup to the offline level.
The police of the task force said that the cost of these fake products is only a few yuan per box, and when sold in terminal pharmacies, it has reached hundreds of yuan per box. In just over a year, Fang used this method to make a fortune, buying a house and a car.