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title: "Busted! 40,000 Counterfeit Beverages Seized! Your Purified Water May Not Be 'Pure'!"
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# Busted! 40,000 Counterfeit Beverages Seized! Your Purified Water May Not Be 'Pure'!

> A large truck transformed into a 'mobile bottling workshop' as a counterfeiting gang shuttled between Guangzhou and Foshan, waging a 'guerrilla war' against regulators and police, producing and selling counterfeit brand-name purified water, beer, and more. Foshan police dismantled the entire criminal chain, arresting 21 suspects and seizing over 40,000 counterfeit beverages.

A large truck transformed into a 'mobile bottling workshop' as a counterfeiting gang shuttled between Guangzhou and Foshan, waging a 'guerrilla war' against regulators and police, producing and selling counterfeit brand-name purified water, beer, and more.
▲ Foshan police dismantled a criminal gang producing and selling counterfeit brand-name beverages; officers on-site teach you how to distinguish genuine purified water from fakes.
On October 16, the Foshan Public Security Bureau, together with the Food and Drug Administration, held a press conference to report a cross-regional case of producing and selling counterfeit brand-name beverages. The case resulted in the arrest of 21 criminal suspects, the destruction of 8 production and sales sites, and the seizure of a large number of counterfeit brand-name purified water, packaging labels, and production tools, with a case value of nearly 10 million RMB. This marked the first strike in the special campaign to crack down on crimes involving food, drugs, agricultural materials, and the environment.
▲ Press conference site
▲ Seized items
This year, Foshan police have vigorously advanced the 'Hurricane 2018' special operation, carrying out special actions to combat crimes involving food, drugs, and the environment, with remarkable results. As of September, the city's public security organs had filed 256 cases involving food and drug crimes, solved 211 cases, and criminally detained 489 suspects and arrested 278 individuals.
**Purified water not 'pure', criminal gang surfaces**
Foshan police discovered a wholesale department for drinking water and beer at the junction of Chancheng and Nanhai in Foshan that was suspected of selling counterfeit goods. Investigators purchased several boxes of drinking purified water from the wholesale department and commissioned a professional institution for sampling and testing, finding that a certain brand of purified water was not 'pure' and was counterfeit.
Police then placed the wholesale department under surveillance, confirmed its criminal activities of selling counterfeit brand-name purified water, and traced the supply chain, gradually uncovering a cross-regional counterfeiting and sales gang spanning Guangzhou and Foshan.
▲ Police investigation uncovered the counterfeiting and sales gang
It is understood that the gang was led by suspect Zhang Moufu (male, 53), with 13 main suspects, and operated 1 bottle-making factory, 3 production and bottling sites, 3 storage sites, and 1 wholesale department, located in Nanhai, Sanshui, Chancheng in Foshan and Huadu in Guangzhou, engaging in the production and sale of counterfeit purified water, beer, soda water, and other beverages.
**Sophisticated counterfeiting techniques, multiple mobile bottling methods**
According to investigators, to evade police crackdowns, the gang set up production sites near beverage factories and distribution centers in urban-rural fringe areas, both to mask the noise of production and bottling and to blend in and avoid inspection.
'Their counterfeiting techniques are very professional, and the finished products look highly similar to genuine ones,' said an investigator. The gang used filtered tap water to produce purified water, and the production sites were even semi-mechanized, allowing for large output and fast speed. The finished products were mainly sold to small convenience stores in rural markets.
To facilitate mobility and wage a 'guerrilla war' against regulators and police, the gang did not store all counterfeit products and packaging materials in warehouses and bottling sites. Instead, they used large box trucks converted into mobile warehouses for storage and transport, combined with vans equipped with bottling equipment, creating a 'mobile bottling workshop' that could operate anytime. 'They can stop and bottle anywhere, making any location a potential bottling site,' the investigator explained.
**Six simultaneous raids, cunning gang fully captured**
As the investigation deepened, the time for the final crackdown matured. On October 10, under the unified command of the Provincial Public Security Department, Foshan police, together with food and drug regulatory authorities, launched simultaneous raids in six locations across Guangzhou and Foshan, with the cooperation of Guangzhou police. They destroyed 8 production, storage, and sales sites for counterfeit brand-name beverages and arrested 21 suspects, including Zhang Moufu, Cheng Mushui, and Liu Mouhua.
During the operation, they seized 1 mobile beer bottling vehicle, 3 mobile storage vehicles, 3 sets of purified water production equipment, 3 sets of bottle-making machines, over 500 boxes of counterfeit brand-name purified water, more than 40,000 counterfeit brand-name beers and brand-name lemon soda water, over 20,000 empty bottles with counterfeit trademarks, and a large number of plastic bottle handles, caps, labels, cartons, production documents, and other tools with trademarks. The entire criminal chain of producing and selling counterfeit brand-name beverages was dismantled.
▲ Seized equipment
'Next, the public security organs will continue to maintain a high-pressure crackdown on food and drug crimes,' said a representative of the Foshan Public Security Bureau. Food safety is related to the vital interests and health of the people. We will continue to strengthen coordination with relevant administrative law enforcement departments, intensify the joint efforts to combat crimes endangering food and drug safety, and protect the 'safety on the tip of the tongue' of the public.
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