Five arrested for allegedly selling fake VW spare parts
16:11 UTC+8, 2021-04-02
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Minhang District police raided the suspects' shop last month and seized close to 600 fake VW spare parts, including safety airbags, headlights and bumpers.
16:11 UTC+8, 2021-04-02
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Ti Gong
Some of the fake Volkswagen spare parts seized by the police
Five suspects have been apprehended for allegedly selling fake spare parts for Volkswagen automobiles, Shanghai police said today.
The suspects ran a shop in Wuzhong Automobile Spare Parts Mall in Minhang District that they opened last October.
District police raided the suspects' shop last month and seized close to 600 fake VW spare parts, including safety airbags, headlights and bumpers.
The authentic counterparts of the fake spare parts are worth more than 290,000 yuan (US$44,200), police said. The suspects purchased them from Guangdong and Jiangsu Provinces.
The investigation is ongoing.
Ti Gong
The warehouse where the suspects kept the fake spare parts
Source: SHINE
Editor: Liu Qi
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