Police operation bags Guangzhou counterfeiters
A total of 62 suspects have been caught for allegedly producing and selling fake LV bags, Shanghai police said on Sunday.
One of them is a clerk at an LV shop in Guangzhou who allegedly sold new collections not yet put on the shelves to other suspects for them to copy.
Fake bags from the new collections were then sold by the suspects even before the authentic ones began to be sold at LV stores, police said.
Police in Qingpu District started their investigation in December last year after discovering that a WeChat account was selling fake LV bags.
A man surnamed Zheng who lives in Guangzhou was identified as the user of the account, and further investigation led to the uncovering of the whole gang which was based in Guangzhou, Dongguan and Foshan cities in Guangdong Province.
The fake bags were produced for 100 (US$15) to 200 yuan each, sold at wholesale prices of 300 to 500 yuan each to first buyers and then sold to retail customers at 400 to 700 yuan each, according to the police.
The fake bags were sold to different parts of the country and also to other countries, police said.
The suspects were rounded up from over 40 locations in a recent police raid, with more than 2,000 fake bags seized. Police said the authentic counterparts of the fakes seized are worth over 110 million yuan.
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Some of the fake LV bags seized in the police raid.
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A warehouse of the suspects.
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The suspects caught from Guangdong Province taken to Shanghai for investigation.
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