Hubei Daily news (reporter Zhou Shoujiang, correspondents Dai Xiaowei and Gao Junwei) mixed and filled low-end liquor of the same brand or other brands into empty bottles of high-end liquor, and "produced" many "high-end liquors" of well-known brands of liquor for sale in order to make profits. On March 14, the Provincial Procuratorate introduced that a gang that produced and sold "high-end wine" in our province was busted, and four people involved were sentenced respectively.
From January 2019 to January 2021, Liu and four others were suspected of engaging in the production and sale of counterfeit liquor in Xiangyang urban area and other places. According to Liu's confession, he used genuine liquor wholesale from regular shops, and the packaging boxes, bases, and bottles used for counterfeiting were purchased from other provinces.
4 people also purchased coding machines, , nailing machines and other crime tools from the Internet to ensure that the appearance of fake and shoddy liquor can be mistaken for the real thing.
After review, it was found that the gang's counterfeit liquor was mainly sold to several local tobacco and alcohol stores (handled separately), with a sales amount of more than 290,000 yuan.
After trial, the local court ruled that the defendant Liu and four others were guilty of producing and selling counterfeit and inferior products. They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two years and six months to one year and ten months, and fines ranging from RMB 80,000 to RMB 30,000. At the same time, all illegal gains were turned over to the state treasury.
In addition, the court ordered the four people to jointly apologize publicly in the local media to consumers who bought and drank the fake and substandard wine they sold.
The Provincial Procuratorate introduced that in 2021, the provincial procuratorial organs continued to promote the " public interest litigation protect a better life" special activity, and jointly handled 841 cases in the field of food and drug safety, making every effort to protect consumers' "safety on the tip of the tongue." Among them, the Jingzhou City Procuratorate appealed for the first time in the country against a civil public interest litigation case of punitive damages in the field of food safety. The defendant was sentenced to bear ten times the punitive damages of 2.74 million yuan.
Source: Jingchu.com
