{"id":28375,"date":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/02\/20150207_183822.shtml"},"modified":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T04:00:00","slug":"20-arrested-for-selling-fake-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/02\/07\/20-arrested-for-selling-fake-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"20 arrested for selling fake goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/thumbnail\/Customs_and_Excise.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers arrested 20 people in a three-day raid, seizing 46,000 counterfeit Lunar New Year goods worth about $433,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized the goods from two wholesale and 14 retail points in North Point, Wan Chai, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Kwai Chung and Yuen Long from February 4 to 6, and arrested nine men and 11 women, aged between 20 and 60.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department advised consumers to buy from reputable shops, and reminded traders that selling infringing goods was a criminal offence, subject to a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $500,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Call 2545 6182 to report counterfeit activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/thumbnail\/Customs_and_Excise.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Customs officers arrested 20 people in a three-day raid, seizing 46,000 counterfeit Lunar New Year goods worth about $433,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized the goods from two wholesale and 14 retail points in North Point, Wan Chai, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Kwai Chung and Yuen Long from February 4 to 6, and arrested nine men and 11 women, aged between 20 and 60.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The department advised consumers to buy from reputable shops, and reminded traders that selling infringing goods was a criminal offence, subject to a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $500,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Call 2545 6182 to report counterfeit activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28376,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28375\/revisions\/28376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}