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Online celebrity caught selling fake products
    2018-10-17  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A CELEBRITY on China’s Twitter-like Weibo has been detained for allegedly selling commodities bearing counterfeit registered trademarks, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

According to a woman surnamed Zhang, she found the Weibo account “美pi猫娘” was very popular several years ago and followed it out of curiosity. At first, the online celebrity shared cat breeding and cosmetics knowledge. She gradually gained more than 600,000 followers and began selling various kinds of products.

At the beginning of 2018, the celebrity started to advertise a buy-it-now activity promoting a well-known glasses brand and claimed that the glasses were from the proper sources. The glasses were sold at half the market price.

In less than five minutes after being put on sale, over 3,000 pairs of glasses were sold. The sales volume reached over 1.94 million yuan (US$280,354) and the profits were about 500,000 yuan, according to the report.

However, many followers found that the glasses they received were very different from the originals. They suspected that they had been sold fake goods and posted negative comments on her online shop. Additionally, the celebrity, surnamed Yu, completely infuriated her fans by her verbal abuse and blacklisting of those who were trying to protect their rights.

Subsequently, the management department of e-commerce platform Alibaba reported an online store under Yu’s name to the Longgang police for being suspected of selling fake glasses. On June 1, the Longgang police immediately set up a special team for the investigation.

According to the police, Yu had nearly 300,000 Weibo followers in 2016 and ran a jewelry company in Shenzhen. The police also discovered that Yu and her husband had an office in Longgang District.

However, when the police arrived, there was no one in the office and most of the computers had disappeared. It was confirmed that Yu and her husband had absconded abroad May 30. Meanwhile, a large number of assets under Yu’s name had also been transferred.

In July, Yu entrusted her family to submit a surrender application to the police station. “I can’t run forever, so I have to come back,” Yu said in a letter. On July 16, Yu and her husband surrendered to the Shenzhen police.

The police subsequently arrested the goods’ supplier, surnamed Lin, on Aug. 14. The case will be prosecuted by the procuratorate.  

(Zhang Yu)

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