Chemical raw materials can be bottled to become famous brand cosmetics!!!
Cosmetics such as "Maybelline" and "Mentholatum" are produced in underground factories. Chemical raw materials are put into empty bottles and transformed into cosmetics. "Famous brand cosmetics"! Recently, the Baiyun District People's Court issued a first-instance verdict on this case of counterfeiting registered trademarks: the principal culprit was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan.
After verification by the procuratorial organ, starting in April 2005, Chaoyang residents Zhou Jinming and Huang Yizhen, together with Zheng, opened an underground factory to produce fake cosmetics. The underground factory is hidden in the rental houses in Lanes 2, 3 and 4 of Dusong Street, Shihu Village, Taihe Town, Baiyun District. The rental house in Lane 4 is a three-story building that is used as a production workshop. The rental houses in Lane 3 and Lane 3 are used as warehouses to store raw materials, cosmetics, finished products and semi-finished products.
Zhou Jinming and others also hired more than 20 workers to buy chemical raw materials such as white phoenix oil, stearic acid, and spices from the chemical materials market in Shantou or Dongpu, Guangzhou, and transported some counterfeit products back from Shantou. Cosmetic empty bottles, logos, packaging boxes, etc. with registered trademarks.
These people mix and stir the purchased chemical raw materials in a certain proportion according to the requirements of the chemical material instructions. After forming a liquid or solid of a certain concentration, they put those liquids or solids into various counterfeit cosmetics. branded empty bottles and packaged. Huang Yizhen was responsible for driving the "cosmetics" to the Xintiandi supporting stalls in Xingfa Plaza, Baiyun District, where they were stored and wholesaled and sold publicly.
On June 9, 2005, the public security organs arrested Zhou Jinming and Huang Yizhen on the spot in the underground factory, and also seized counterfeit Shiseido, Yue Sai, LANCOME, Little Nurse, L'Oreal, SK-II, CD, OLAY, and DOVE. , PONDS and other brands of cosmetics, packaging boxes, empty bottles, hoses, semi-finished products, trademarks and logos, and a number of "well-known brand" cosmetics worth more than 5.67 million yuan, and some counterfeiting equipment was also seized.
The Baiyun District People's Court held that Zhou Jinming and Huang Yizhen ganged up to use the same trademark as their registered trademark on the same product without the permission of the registered trademark owner. The circumstances were particularly serious and their actions constituted the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks
The court sentenced the principal Zhou Jinming to five years in prison and a fine of 200,000 yuan in the first instance; the accomplice Huang Yizhen was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined 50,000 yuan.