Windshields made in China will be sold under fake luxury brands at a warehouse in Hue city in December 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Vo Thanh
Police in central Vietnam have arrested five people accused of buying car windshields from a Chinese producer and labeling them as products of Toyota, Mercedes, Kia, Ford, Hyundai and Mazda.
Tran Quoc Loi, 46, Dang Van Minh Hieu, 18, Le Minh Tung and Le Thi Nga, both 30, and Ho Van Loi, 28, are under investigation for “trading counterfeit products,” police in Thua Thien-Hue province announced on Thursday.
Also involved, Trinh Thi Kim Nhu, 36, is not allowed to leave her hometown of Huong Thuy in the province to take part in the investigation.
Law is identified as the brain.
He told police that he purchased “a large quantity” of car windshields from China’s Xinyi Automobile Glass (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., removed the logo and labeled them as products from Toyota, Mercedes and others.
For each Chinese windshield, the group sells them on the market at prices 300 to 500% higher than the original prices.
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Tran Quoc Loi (2nd, left) during his arrest by police in Thua Thien – Hue province, February 2024. Photo by VnExpress/Tran Hong |
Police said it was unclear when they started the business, but they identified that between April and November last year the group imported 5,000 windshields from Shenzhen on three occasions .
They were arrested after market inspectors checked a store selling auto components on Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in Hue, which was selling counterfeit products.
