Cut off the fake cigarette sales chain across the province

Where can I buy 600 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes? With this question, the Zhongxiang City Procuratorate of Hubei Province had dug a detailed investigation from a case of suspected sale of fake and shoddy products, and cut off a fake cigarette vending gang across more than 1 million yuan across the province. The Zhongxiang City Procuratorate filed a public prosecution. Recently, the court sentenced the defendant Lai Moujia and Lai Mouyi to seven years in prison and five years in prison, and each fined 500,000 yuan.

In August 2021, the Zhongxiang Tobacco Monopoly Bureau transferred a clue to the City Public Security Bureau: a supermarket owner Ma, Ma Mou, and Li purchased 600 counterfeit and inferior cigarettes from Guangdong and returned to Zhongxiang City for sales. Yuan, his behavior is suspected of crime, it is recommended to fight according to law. Where to buy fake cigarettes? Is there a larger chain of interest behind it? After learning the clue, the Office of the Procuratorate of Zhongxiang City Procuratorate and cooperated with the office notified the prosecutor in advance to guide the investigating agency to trace back to the upper reaches of the fake cigarette sales chain.

After investigation, a fake cigarette vendor gang who spans more than 1 million yuan in the province and the case involved in the province is gradually surfaced.

It turned out that Lai Moujia operated a department store business bank in Guangdong. At the end of 2017, after being introduced by people, Lai Moujia met fake cigarette vendors and started a fake cigarette business under the drive of interests. In January 2018, Lai Moujia's cousin Lai Mouyi learned that he was making fake cigarettes and purchased fake cigarettes from Lai Moujia. household. After a long time, the two decided that Lai Moujia was responsible for searching for online supply. Lai Mouyi was responsible for developing offline sales of fake cigarettes. Wait. As of October 2021, Lai Mouyi introduced Lai Moujia more than 40 fake cigarette sales salespersons (all of them have been handled), and Lai Moujia received more than 880,000 yuan in fake cigarettes through Lai Mouyi.

At the same time, Lai Mouyi also developed offline sales of fake cigarettes. One day in 2020, Lai Mouyi came to the convenience store operated by Wu to sell fake cigarettes, saying that his cigarettes were produced abroad. Not only did it taste good, but it was much cheaper than the same brand produced in China. One of Lai Mouyi's offline. In mid -November 2020, Wu's former worker Li came to his rental house and saw various brand cigarettes in his home, and the two talked. "These cigarettes are fake cigarettes. If you need it, I can sell it to you." When he heard Wu, Li bought 12 fake cigarettes on the spot. In addition, Li transferred the supermarkets he operated to Ma. Because cigarettes ordered cigarettes ordered from regular channels such as tobacco companies could not meet the sales needs, Ma asked Li to buy cigarettes from the informal channels. You can help contact fake cigarettes in the field, Ma Mou readily agreed.

In this way, fake cigarettes came to Hubei from Guangdong. After investigation, Lai Mouyi has developed more than 20 people and other offline Wu Mou, selling more than 10,000 fake cigarettes. After the price increase, the sales amount is nearly 1 million yuan.

In March and June of this year, Lai Mouyi and Lai Moujia were transferred to Zhongxiang City Procuratorate for review and prosecution. After the prosecutor's review, the prosecutor believed that Lai Moujia and Lai Mouyi illegally sold counterfeit and inferior cigarettes. The facts of the crime were clear and the evidence was indeed and sufficient. The prosecution of a certain B and Lai Moujia made the above judgment after trial. At present, Ma, Li, Wu, and others are still under review and prosecution.

(Source: Prosecutor's Daily Author: Liu Yiting Liu Feixiong Zhang Meilin)

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