Shanghai police cracked the industrial chain of manufacturing and selling counterfeit Japanese sake

Chongming Laobaigan, priced at 80 yuan a barrel and weighing 36 kg, after simple packaging and affixing the trademark of counterfeit Japanese brand sake, has become an "imported" Japanese sake priced at 1200 yuan a bottle, which is sold to Japanese restaurants and even some star rated hotels. Recently, Shanghai police uncovered an industrial chain of manufacturing and selling counterfeit Japanese sake across provinces, and its huge profits were alarming.

Since March last year, the criminal suspect Yu and others have rented two residential houses and a warehouse in Qingpu District of Shanghai as a counterfeiting dens to seek illegal interests. They bought extremely cheap Laobaigan from Chongming countryside, repackaged them in rented residential houses, and sold them to Shanghai and other provinces and cities with Japanese sake brands such as "Kubota, Nihonsei".

Yumou's counterfeit sake industry chain involves Shanghai, Jiangsu and Shandong. Shanghai police, together with local police, concentrated their operations in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Shandong, seized 11 dens producing and selling counterfeit Japanese sake, arrested five suspects suspected of producing and selling counterfeit Japanese sake and sake trademark logo, and seized a large number of production machines, raw materials and counterfeit Japanese sake, involving more than 30 million yuan.