Arresting a group of subjects producing fake functional foods
Authorities seized more than 4,000 boxes of fake, low-quality functional foods with more than 100 product codes, more than 60,000 products, thousands of fake packaging; the total value of the goods is estimated at more than 10 billion VND.
On October 25, information from Thanh Hoa City Police, Thanh Hoa Province, the unit has just successfully destroyed a facility producing and trading functional foods.counterfeit goods, poor quality goods.
Authorities seized more than 4,000 boxes of fake, low-quality functional foods with more than 100 product codes, more than 60,000 products and thousands of fake packaging. The total value of the goods is estimated at more than 10 billion VND.
Through understanding the situation, the Economic Police force, Thanh Hoa City Police discovered that in the city there were a number of subjects exchanging and trading functional foods of a number of branded companies.
Subjects have advertising and online sales activities and commit to always having goods available in large quantities and always being able to provide buyers with good prices.
Using professional measures, Thanh Hoa City Police conducted simultaneous searches at 10 locations including factories, warehouses, and product packaging printing workshops in Thanh Hoa City, Tu Son City, Bac Ninh Province, and Gia Lam District, Hanoi City.
Thanh Hoa City Police have issued a decision to temporarily detain 4 suspects; among them, Hoang Thi Nga (born in 1981), residing at No. 15, Lane 42, Kim Giang Street, Kim Giang Ward, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi City, is the person directly in charge of production at the factory producing functional foods and health protection foods of Goldwin International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company. Nga holds 50% of the shares in the Company.
At the police station, the subjects confessed that they understood the needs of consumers looking to buy weight loss foods, brain-boosting foods, beauty foods for women, eye-boosting foods for children, milk drinks for the elderly, foods to support the treatment of stomach diseases, etc. Therefore, the subjects established factories to manufacture and process fake health protection foods to sell on the market to profit with many extremely sophisticated methods and tricks.
The subjects established production companies, companies responsible for product quality but did not conduct business at the address, did not hang company signs, and most of these companies were run by family members as directors to deceive the authorities./.
