Recently, the Nanxi District Bureau of the Yibin Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of the District successfully cracked a case of selling counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarettes, arrested 2 suspects, and seized thousands of counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarette products.
In May this year, the police of the Forest Police Brigade received a complaint from the tobacco department, saying that a store near Binjiang Road in the jurisdiction was suspected of selling counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarettes. After obtaining clues, the forest police brigade immediately set up an investigation team with the District Tobacco Monopoly Bureau to verify and dig deep into the clues. On June 4, the investigation team believed that the time was ripe and immediately went to the store to arrest the two suspects in one fell swoop, and seized counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarette products worth nearly 30,000 yuan at the scene.
After interrogation, the criminal suspects Zhang and Zhang confessed to the crime of selling counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarettes, and confessed that the two had sold a number of counterfeit and shoddy e-cigarettes since October 2022, and the amount involved amounted to more than 40 yuan.
At present, Zhang and Zhang have been taken compulsory measures by our bureau, and the case is under further investigation.