Nghe An arrests and handles nearly 3,000 cases of smuggling, counterfeiting, and poor quality goods

Detect and punish many violations
Information fromMarket Management DepartmentNghe An, in the months leading up to the 2020 Lunar New Year, violations in the field of market management have tended to increase. Notable violations include the storage and trading of firecrackers, cigarettes and smuggled goods.counterfeit, poor quality goods.

Market management officers inspecting infringing goods. Photo courtesy of Dang Cuong

At the end of October 2020, Market Management Team No. 11 - Nghe An Market Management Department coordinated with the Economic Security Department (Provincial Police) to inspect 2 tobacco businesses in Vinh City in Hung Binh Ward and Phan Chu Trinh Street (Doi Cung Ward), discovering that these establishments were all in violation of selling a large quantity of products that were not allowed to circulate on the market.

The facility in Hung Binh ward is owned by Mr. NVD, who is also the owner of the IQSV Facebook social network account. Here, the authorities discovered that this facility was selling 25 cigars and 140 packs of cigarettes.cigarettesmuggled cigarettes, 6 electronic cigarettes, 32 bottles of electronic cigarette essential oil with a total fine of nearly 70 million VND.

The facility in Doi Cung ward, owned by Mr. NCT, who is also the owner of the VP Facebook social network account, sold 42 products, including 12 electronic cigarette machines and 30 bottles of electronic cigarette essential oil, with a total fine of nearly 40 million VND.

Mr. Nguyen Van Kien could not present invoices, vouchers, and related papers to prove the legal origin of all the above goods. Market Management Team No. 4 has handled the administrative violation of nearly 20 million VND, coordinated with functional forces and local authorities to destroy all the above violating goods.

Smuggling of electronic cigarettes is on the rise. Photo from the internet

Also in October 2020, upon receiving a report from the people on National Highway 1A in Quynh Thien Ward (Hoang Mai Town), a truck was loading and unloading goods with signs of administrative violations. Market Management Team No. 4 - Nghe An Market Management Department inspected the car with license plate 36C-317.41 driven by Mr. Nguyen Van Kien in Hai Binh Commune, Tinh Gia District (Thanh Hoa). Through the inspection, Market Management Team No. 4 discovered that the vehicle was transporting 60 kg of boneless chicken feet of unknown origin.source, origin.

In the first 10 months of 2020, the Provincial Market Management Department inspected and detected 2,955 violations of trading in firecrackers, smuggled goods, and poor quality goods; 2,671 cases were handled, with a total fine of nearly 10 billion VND. Of which, administrative fines of nearly 5 billion VND and confiscation and destruction of goods worth nearly 5 billion VND. Of which, in October 2020 alone, the whole province detected and arrested 331 cases, 352 subjects and seized 231 kg of various types of firecrackers; 31 tons of animals and many smuggled goods of unknown origin worth more than 400 million VND.

Through a series of violations discovered and handled by the authorities recently, it shows that in the months before Tet, due to the market demand for large quantities of goods, especially firecrackers, cigarettes, and food, crimes also increased and became more active.

Not only that, criminals also use many sophisticated acts and tricks to deceive the authorities. For example, they make their own car compartments to hide and camouflage.concealment of contraband, smuggled goods in cargo containers are candy or fruit and transported on modern means of transport, mainly cars of all kinds.

Criminals also take advantage of deserted areas or late at night to commit crimes. Therefore, to prevent and combat these types of crimes, in addition to market management forces, there must also be synchronous participation from other levels, sectors, and functional forces such as police, customs, border guards, etc., and local authorities.

Authorities destroy infringing goods. Photo courtesy of Dang Cuong

Strengthening control and handling of violations in this field, in October 2020, the police force in the province received and handled 498 reports of crimes in all fields, including reports of violations of trading in firecrackers, smuggled goods, counterfeit goods... From the reports, local police have established special projects to fight and destroy. Typically, on October 26, in Bac Ninh hamlet, Tay Hieu commune, Thai Hoa town police ambushed and caught red-handed Dau Van Hieu (born in 1989), residing in Dong Xuan hamlet, Dong Hop commune (Quy Hop) while transporting prohibited goods on a pickup truck; discovered 5 snake skins hidden under the back seat of the car, containing 98 rectangular firecracker boxes with a total weight of 151 kg. Not only the police force, in the past month, the provincial Customs Department also discovered and handled 10 cases, including 1 case of drug trafficking, seizing 595g of suspected crystal meth; 8 cases of administrative violations and 1 case of trading and transporting firecrackers, seizing 12kg of various types of firecrackers. During the Tet holiday, the Customs Department will strengthen professional measures to further tighten the work of preventing and combating all types of crimes and trade fraud.

Mr. Nguyen Van Huong - Deputy Director of the Market Management Department said that the unit has issued specific work plans in each field. Particularly for the prevention and control of trafficking and transportationfirecracker, The Market Management Department issued Plan No. 769/KH-QLTT.NVTH dated September 4, 2020, to strengthen coordination with agencies, units, and localities in preventing, combating, and handling violations.

At the meeting of the Internal Affairs Bloc at the end of October 2020, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee requested functional agencies to increase measures to prevent and combat crimes related to smuggling, trade fraud, and trading of firecrackers; strengthen coordination to ensure security and order, ensure the quality of goods to serve the needs and protect the health of the people, especially before the Lunar New Year.