On August 5, led by the guangzhou Baiyun District anti-counterfeiting work class, with the support of the big data of the e-commerce platform, the Baiyun police dispatched more than 30 police personnel to successfully destroy 8 fake dens in Panyu and Baiyun, arrested 7 criminal suspects, seized more than 1,200 boxes of counterfeit cosmetics, semi-finished products and packaging materials, and accumulated the total case value of online sales of more than 600,000 yuan, completely eradicating the illegal chain of manufacturing and selling counterfeit self-owned brand products of enterprises in Baiyun District.
At the end of April this year, Guangzhou Guerlain Beauty Cosmetics Chain Co., Ltd., a local enterprise in Baiyun District, found that several unauthorized online stores sold their products, and after purchasing, they found that they were all fakes, because they lacked relevant processing experience and did not know how to be good for a while. Knowing that Baiyun District is promoting a three-year anti-counterfeiting action and carrying out a special crackdown on counterfeit cosmetics violations, the Baiyun District Cosmetics Industry Promotion Association reflected the situation to the Baiyun District Anti-Counterfeiting Work Class.
Involving the brand in the district, the Baiyun District Anti-Counterfeiting Work Special Class attaches great importance to it, immediately collects data from the relevant e-commerce platform, and cooperates with the Baiyun police to conduct a thorough analysis and judgment, and finds that the 3 online stores involved are all pointed to a village in Panyu District. With the close cooperation of the special class, the police, and the enterprise, after several months of control and stepping on the point, a whole chain involving counterfeiting from production to sales has finally surfaced.
During the net collection operation, the police acted simultaneously on 6 target dens. Panyu action group progressed extremely smoothly, in charge of the 4 target points in one fell swoop arrested 6 suspects of online sales of counterfeits, while discovering a warehouse that had not been touched before, in these 5 dens a total of more than 1,200 boxes of counterfeit Guerlain Beauty Company "Jimmy" brand cosmetics, and through the collection of sales data related to the 3 online stores involved in the case, the illegal sales amount of more than 500,000 yuan was basically found.
However, the Baiyun Action Group encountered obstacles, and although the production suspect Liu Moumou was successfully arrested, no production evidence was found in the 2 target points it was responsible for. Liu Moumou's attitude is also extremely arrogant, and even accuses the police of abusing his power, the case encountered the greatest difficulties, once the production evidence is missing, the chief evil of this illegal chain may escape responsibility.
Baiyun District anti-counterfeiting work special class immediately dispatched the two street forces involved in Junhe and Jiahe to cooperate with the scene, and the special class and the police also launched a detailed search for evidence in Liu Moumou's company. After hours of hard work, law enforcement officers found an important clue in a stack of documents — a cosmetics warehouse lease contract.
According to the address pointed to by the contract, the police quickly found the location of the target warehouse with the cooperation of the street, and the street mobilized the property management party to open the warehouse, which was used to produce the equipment, packaging materials and semi-finished products of counterfeit "Jimmy" cosmetics, and the monitoring of the warehouse elevator and the identification of the relevant management personnel all pointed to Liu Moumou, in the face of criminal evidence, Liu Moumou finally died.
The relevant person in charge of the baiyun district anti-counterfeiting work class said that under the leadership of the Baiyun District Party Committee and the District Government, the three-year anti-counterfeiting special action being promoted in Baiyun District has achieved remarkable results, in order to escort the cosmetics industry to become a pillar industry for the high-quality development of the jurisdiction, from 2021 onwards, it is to launch the cosmetics anti-counterfeiting action with the special project, emphasizing the establishment of a four-synchronous crackdown mechanism (that is, production to sales, offline to online, node to chain, and the four synchronizations of the district to the field), Strengthen the protection of the intellectual property rights of cosmetics enterprises with a focus on independent brands. According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, it has investigated more than 150 clues related to counterfeiting on the Internet for the city and the perfect diary of the district, Infinitus, Adolf, Membrane Law Family, Guerlain Beauty, Duoyan Slender and other brands, and this is the first case to combat counterfeiting for independent brands across regions.
"In the past, the situation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Baiyun District suffering from online counterfeiting was difficult to crack is reversing." The person in charge said that the successful investigation and handling of this case provides a useful reference for how to carry out online counterfeiting for local brands in the future, fully reflects the great progress of Baiyun District in its ability to investigate and deal with illegal acts of manufacturing and selling counterfeits, and shows the increasing brand protection ability of Baiyun District.
Text, photo/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Tang Nan Correspondent Huang Xin, Li Yingtong Guangzhou Daily Xin Xin Editor: Wu Duo