The gang that produced and sold "high-end wine" was arrested! Hubei handles 841 public interest litigation cases in the field of food and drug safety throughout the year

News from Hubei Daily (Reporter Zhou Shoujiang, Correspondents Dai Xiaowei, Gao Junwei) Mixed and filled low-grade liquor of the same brand or other brands into empty high-end liquor bottles, and "produced" many well-known brands of "high-end liquor" for sale. Use this to make a profit. On March 14, the provincial procuratorate introduced that a gang in our province that produced and sold "high-end wine" in this way was abolished, and four people involved in the case were sentenced to prison. From January 2019 to January 2021, four people including Liu were suspected of producing and selling counterfeit and inferior liquor in Xiangyang City and other places. According to Liu's confession, all the counterfeit products are genuine liquor wholesaled from regular stores, and the packaging boxes, bases, and wine bottles used for counterfeiting are purchased from other provinces. The

4 people also purchased coding machines, , nailing machines and other criminal tools from the Internet to ensure that the appearance of fake and shoddy liquor can be confused with real ones.

After review, the gang's counterfeit liquor was mainly sold to several local tobacco and alcohol stores (handled in a separate case), with a sales amount of more than 290,000 yuan.

After the trial, the local court ruled that defendant Liu and four others were guilty of producing and selling counterfeit and inferior products. At the same time, all illegal gains will be turned over to the state treasury.

In addition, the court ordered the four people to make a public apology on the local media to the consumers who bought and drank the counterfeit and shoddy wines they sold. According to the provincial procuratorate, in 2021, the province's procuratorial organs will continue to promote the special activity of " public interest litigation and protect a better life", and set up a total of 841 cases in the field of food and drug safety, making every effort to protect the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of consumers. Among them, the Jingzhou City Procuratorate filed an appeal for the first time in the country against a punitive compensation civil public interest lawsuit in the field of food safety, and the defendant was sentenced to ten times the punitive compensation of 2.74 million yuan.

source: Jingchu.com