A few days ago, after careful investigation, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, with the assistance of the Guangdong and Zhejiang police, successfully detected a case of using bulk "Ferrero" chocolates, self-labeling and packaging into gift boxes to counterfeit the well-known brand "Ferrero". Chocolate registered trademark case.

The police arrested 18 suspects, destroyed 17 production, storage and sales dens, and seized more than 7,900 plastic boxes with counterfeit "Ferrero" logos, more than 900,000 trademarks, and 11 sets of criminal equipment involved in the case. The amount is more than 13 million yuan.

Since the beginning of this year, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau has severely cracked down on and strictly prevented all types of intellectual property infringement crimes. It has solved more than 740 cases of infringement and counterfeiting, involving more than 6.8 billion yuan, and protected more than 320 For the legitimate rights and interests of the brand, more than 40 domestic and foreign brand rights holders expressed their gratitude to the Shanghai police in various forms.

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Detection process:

In January this year, the intelligent system discovered that a variety of "Ferrero" gift box chocolate products were sold on some online e-commerce platforms. The sales volume actually exceeded the company's total market volume. The Economic Investigation Corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Minhang Police set up a joint task force to conduct investigations and quickly identified a number of suspicious online stores.

After investigation, these gift box chocolates came from a wholesale trading company in Shanghai. After identifying Liu, the actual controller of the company, investigators found that Liu had purchased a large amount of counterfeit gift box packaging materials for the brand's chocolate products from Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places, and was suspected of producing and selling counterfeit goods.

After several months of investigation, the task force finally clarified the criminal context of this gang. Since 2019, Liu and others have rented multiple factories in Shanghai, purchased imitation gift box chocolate packaging tape and plastic boxes from Wei from Guangdong and Pan from Zhejiang, and purchased fake chocolate packaging tapes and plastic boxes from Yang and others from Shanghai. "Ferrero" brand labels, pallets, bottom cards and cartons are self-printed with production date, shelf life and product batch number.

In order to obtain illegal profits, Liu and others purchased a large amount of "Ferrero Rocher" bulk chocolate at a price of 1.88 yuan per pill, packaged it into fake "Ferrero Rocher" gift boxes, and then packed the chocolate in boxes with an average price of 1.88 yuan per pill. Sell ??it for 3 to 4 yuan and earn the difference.

In July this year, the task force simultaneously closed the network in Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, and finally captured 18 suspects including Liu, Wei, Pan, Yang and others.

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