Raid on production facility and warehouse of fake OMO laundry detergent

Through the work of grasping the situation and investigating and verifying, Vinh Loc District Police, Thanh Hoa Province discovered on the e-commerce platform Shopee Vietnam that there was a suspect buying and selling counterfeit goods of the OMO brand, so they reported to the Director and Head of the Provincial Police Investigation Agency to establish a special project to fight.

Under the direction of the Director and Head of the Provincial Police Department of Investigation, Vinh Loc District Police have focused their forces on reviewing and collecting evidence to deploy professional measures to combat and eradicate the crime.

Using professional measures and a spirit of urgency to attack and suppress crime, on August 8, 2024, the Special Task Force assigned two working groups consisting of many experienced detectives and investigators to simultaneously raid Dong Hung General Warehouse, located in Dong Hung village, Te Nong commune, Nong Cong district, owned by Le Tuan Thanh (born in 1995) at the same address and the production facility owned by Le Ha Tuan (born in 1995) in Thai Son village, Tan Phuc commune, Nong Cong district.

At Dong Hung Warehouse, the task force seized 182 boxes of fake OMO brand laundry detergent (each box had 4 bags, 3.6 kg/bag); 16 boxes of fake OMO brand laundry detergent (each box had 4 bags, 2 kg/bag); 1 computer, 1 order creation machine; 110 kg of unlabeled cardboard boxes.

At Le Ha Tuan's production facility, the working group seized 283 boxes of fake OMO brand laundry detergent (each box had 4 bags of 3.6 kg each); 150 boxes of fake OMO brand laundry detergent (each box had 4 bags of 2 kg each); 2 extraction bottles; 6 bags (total weight 160 kg) of laundry detergent packaging printed with fake OMO brand images; 1 box containing product bag lids; 540 kg of cardboard boxes printed with OMO brand; 1 mixer; 20 bags of chemicals and cold salt; about 600 liters of finished laundry detergent that had not been bottled; 47 boxes of fake Sunlight brand dishwashing liquid.

Initially, the Vinh Loc District Police Department investigated and determined that Le Ha Tuan was the subject who produced the above-mentioned counterfeit OMO brand products. Under the guise of a toilet paper production facility, this subject turned his paper production workshop into many rooms to store raw materials, mixing machines, and decanting counterfeit OMO brand products.

To commit his crime, Tuan learned how to process the chemicals on YouTube, then bought chemicals on social networks, hired workers to mix them himself, and also hired printing of fake OMO brand packaging to decant and package to supply to online sellers.

Le Tuan Thanh was the one who bought Le Ha Tuan's laundry detergent products and then posted them on the Shopee e-commerce platform, livestreamed on social networks with attractive advertisements, invitations, and "floor-breaking" price reductions to advertise, introduce, and sell products nationwide. When customers wanted to order, this person would deliver money and goods through the shipper system or express delivery companies...

It is estimated that with this method, each month the subjects sold over 4,000 fake OMO brand laundry detergent products, equivalent to the value of real goods of about 1 billion VND, illegally earning hundreds of millions of VND.

Currently, the Criminal Investigation Agency of Vinh Loc District Police is temporarily detaining Le Ha Tuan and Le Tuan Thanh along with a number of other related subjects to continue investigating, expanding and strictly handling according to the provisions of law.