Some liquor products with signboards such as special supply for certain organs and special reception for certain institutions are usually called "special liquor" by merchants. These wines are sold at a high price, often thousands of yuan a bottle. A few days ago, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, the Shanghai police cut off a number of criminal chains that used "special supply" and "exclusive supply" as gimmicks to produce and sell counterfeit well-known brand liquor, arrested 52 criminal suspects, and seized more than 12,000 bottles of fake liquor, with a total amount of more than 140 million yuan.
In July last year, the Shanghai police found during their daily inspections that some merchants sold so-called "special" and "exclusive" liquor with the trademark of a well-known brand, which were identified as fake liquor, and the police immediately launched an investigation. In December 2023, the police carried out a centralized network collection operation, and successfully arrested 9 criminal gangs that purchased bulk liquor at low prices and then used flavors and pigments to blend and illegally produce and sell "special" liquor and counterfeit famous liquor, and smashed 9 counterfeiting dens and 14 distribution and storage dens.
Yang Haiqing, Captain of the Food Crime Investigation Brigade of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau: There is no such "special" liquor on the market, or there is no domestic enterprise that has produced these liquors with the "special" logo, all of which are fake.
After investigation, since 2022, 9 criminal gangs led by criminal suspects Fan Moumou, Gu Moumou and others have purchased bulk liquor at low prices for illegal profits, and printed packaging materials for various "special" liquors. In order to simulate the taste and color of well-known brand liquor, the criminal suspects used a large number of prohibited flavors and pigments, blended the liquor, filled it in a dirty workshop and factory, and pasted the so-called "Liquor Recruited in the General Office of the Central Military Commission" and "Special Liquor for the Organ Service Bureau of the State Council Organ Affairs Administration" and other counterfeit labels, and even made gift boxes.
Policeman handling the case: How much is a pound?
Suspect: 28 yuan a catty.
Subsequently, the above-mentioned criminal gang sold to Chen, Xiong and other distributors at a price of several hundred yuan a bottle, and finally sold it to many places across the country at prices ranging from 1,000 yuan to more than 2,000 yuan per bottle through offline stores, telemarketing and other channels. At present, the police have arrested 52 criminal suspects, seized more than 12,000 bottles of "special" fake wine, more than 100,000 pieces of fake packaging materials such as empty wine bottles and wine boxes, and 27 sets of counterfeiting tools such as filling machines and packing machines, with a total amount of more than 140 million yuan.
Police Tips:
The so-called "special" wine circulating in the market is all fake
The police said that in 2013, the State Council Administration of Organs and other departments jointly issued the "Notice on Strictly Prohibiting the Central and State Organs from Using the Marks of "Special Supply" and "Exclusive Supply", which strictly prohibits the departments of the central and state organs and their subordinate administrative institutions from using, making or selling items with the marks of "special supply" and "exclusive supply".
Yang Haiqing, Captain of the Food Crime Investigation Brigade of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau: Why do many people buy this fake wine? First, many people have a curious mentality; second, he thinks that he has never seen this kind of wine on the market, or he thinks that he can declare to his friends that I have a channel to buy this kind of wine that is not available on the market, and socially, he thinks that he can give people a feeling of "superiority".
At present, the police have taken criminal coercive measures against the relevant criminal suspects in accordance with the law, and the case is being further investigated.
The reporter learned that as early as 2011, the mainland's four departments of industry and commerce, industry and information technology, commerce, and quality inspection jointly carried out a special action to clean up and rectify the abuse of "special supply" and "special supply" marks of some commodities.
In March 2013, the State Council Administration of Organs and other five departments jointly issued the Notice on Strictly Prohibiting the Central and State Organs from Using the Marks of "Special Supply" and "Special Supply".
In September 2020, the General Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the Notice on Carrying out Special Actions to Clean Up and Rectify Online Sales and Publicize "Special" and "Exclusively Supply" Labeled Commodities.
In July 2022, six departments, including the Logistics Support Department of the Central Military Commission, jointly issued the "Notice on Prohibiting the Sale of Tobacco and Alcohol and Other Commodities under the "Army" Brand. It can be seen that the so-called "special", "internal" and "exclusive" liquor currently circulating in the market can all be called fake liquor.
Source: "CCTV Finance" WeChat public account