Expanding investigation into Khaisilk case
The Minister of Industry and Trade has just signed a decision to establish a delegation to inspect law enforcement in the trade of counterfeit and banned goods and to protect consumer rights related to the Khaisilk case of selling Vietnamese goods labeled "Made in China".
The delegation will inspect Khai Duc Company Limited (headquartered at 2 Phan Van Chuong, Tan Phu Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City) and the company's branches and business locations.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the delegation is responsible for developing a plan, conducting inspections of compliance with relevant laws, detecting and handling or proposing handling of violations according to legal regulations at Khaisilk. At the same time, it will report the inspection results, propose tasks and management solutions to competent authorities.
The inspection team will be led by Mr. Trinh Anh Tuan - Deputy Director in charge of the Department of Competition and Consumer Protection (Ministry of Industry and Trade), including members from the following agencies: tax, Ministry of Science and Technology, police investigation agency, Association for Standards and Consumer Protection, and agencies under the Ministry... The Market Management Department will be the focal point to work with Khai Duc Group.
 |
| On October 31, authorities inspected the Khaisilk store at 101 Dong Khoi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. |
Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said that according to the summary report of the functional forces, the evidence... shows that the actions of a large enterprise like Khaisilk and the stores selling Khaisilk products, from counterfeiting labels for consumer products, harming the interests of consumers, violating the law, leaving many different consequences.
"From many aspects, in addition to price appraisal, we see that there are enough elements to constitute a criminal offense. The case also has enough grounds and conditions to transfer to the economic investigation agency for clarification, because the damage caused by the violation has exceeded 30 million VND," he said.
In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Trade found that there were complications in the relationship between Khaisilk Group and its affiliated stores, as well as stores at 113 Hang Gai, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, in trading products with fake labels.
"Therefore, it is necessary to have competent and capable authorities to clarify the nature of violations through business activities like this. Therefore, we have directed the Market Management Department to transfer the case to the investigation agency for clarification," Mr. Tuan Anh added.
Previously, following the direction of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Market Management Department requested the market management departments in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to expand inspections of signs of fraudulent business practices of the Khaisilk system in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as well as at 5-star hotels and resorts in the localities.
According to information from the Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade and Head of the Hanoi Market Management Department - Mr. Chu Xuan Kien, the Department has transferred the Khaisilk case file to the investigation agency, the Department of Investigation Police on Economic Management and Position Crimes (PC460) - Hanoi Police to expand the investigation into violations in goods production as well as tax and real estate issues of Khaisilk.
In a related development, the Customs Department said it has also begun to inspect and trace the origin of Khaisilk's Chinese silk imports.
Khaisilk's crisis began a week ago when on her personal Facebook page, Dang Nhu Quynh reported buying Khaisilk silk scarves labeled "Made in China". According to Mr. Quynh, on October 17, his family's company ordered 60 silk scarves for 644,000 VND each at Khaisilk store 113 Hang Gai (Hanoi) with a total order value of 38,640,000 VND. However, after receiving the goods, the company discovered that in the shipment there was a scarf with both the label "KHAISILK - Made in Vietnam" and the label "Made in China". The company inspected the entire shipment and discovered that many of the remaining scarves had signs of the label being cut off at the edge of the scarf. In response to the above incident, Mr. Hoang Khai - Chairman of Khaisilk Group later admitted to the media that he "sold 50% of 'Made in China' silk in his system" and apologized to consumers. However, the question here is whether there was tolerance and support from the local market management agency or not, when the establishments in the Khaisilk system have been selling Chinese goods for many years but the authorities did not know or handle it. |
According to VNE
| RELATED NEWS |
|---|
.jpg "Hội Doanh nghiệp Nghệ Tĩnh tài trợ 1 tỷ đồng xây phòng bán trú cho học sinh vùng cao Nghệ An")
