Director of fake coffee production company arrested

On July 4, the Dak Nong Provincial Police Department issued a decision to prosecute the case.prosecuteaccused and executed the temporary detention order against Tran Van Dong (born in 1985, residing in Thuan Ha commune, Dak Song district, Dak Nong province) and Nguyen Thanh Sy (born in 1979, residing in Ba Diem commune, Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh City), Director of Tran Tien Coffee Production and Trading Company Limited to investigate the act of "Producing and trading in counterfeit food products".

Previously, on June 7, through the fight against counterfeit goods, the Economic Police Department, Dak Nong Provincial Police discovered and caught red-handed at a coffee powder production and processing facility owned by Tran Van Dong in village 7, Nam Binh commune, Dak Song district, producing and processing fake coffee powder. Here, the police force seized 392 packages of coffee powder, weighing 196 kg.

Expanding the investigation, on June 12, the Economic Police Department, Dak Nong Provincial Police inspected and discovered that the car owned by Nguyen Thanh Sy was carrying 1,193 packages of various types of ground coffee weighing 596.5 kg, produced by Tran Tien Coffee Production and Trading Company Limited. Expanding the investigation, the Economic Police Department, Dak Nong Provincial Police seized an additional 187 packages of various types of ground coffee weighing 93.5 kg.

According to the appraisal results, the coffee powder samples produced by Tran Van Dong and Nguyen Thanh Sy did not contain caffeine, and did not conform to the product quality stated on the product packaging as well as the national standards for coffee powder.

According to the suspects' statements, to avoid detection by authorities, after producing the fake coffee, Dong and Sy transported it to small grocery stores in remote areas and sold it at cheap prices from 50,000 VND to 70,000 VND/kg.