960,000 bags sold by Chinese counterfeit operation

19/11/2012
Chinese police, working with US authorities, have arrested 73 people for manufacturing and exporting fake branded bags, purporting to be Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Coach.

More than 20,000 counterfeit bags were confiscated and 37 production sites shut down, according to a Chinese press agency. The gang had manufactured and sold more than 960,000 such bags.

Officials in the southern export hub of Guangdong province began uncovering the ring in January. Police later discovered other production sites in the eastern provinces of Fujian and Anhui, said the report.