Dearborn Co. Prosecutor’s Office Helps End Counterfeit Goggle Business
Dearborn County authorities are being credited with helping bust a Chinese company selling counterfeit combat goggles.
The company named Guangzhou Botai Optical Visor Co., Ltd. is accused of illegally manufacturing and selling counterfeit military-grade goggles. The goggles that the knock-offs imitated are manufactured by U.S. company Revision Military. The goggles are used by special forces.
According to a news release from Revision Military, the phoney goggles were distributed under the pretense of providing military-grade ballistic protection which presents a hazard to the safety of users expecting the high level eye protection which of the authentic product. Testing, Revision claims, showed that Guangzhou Botai’s goggles met none of the industry standards for optical or ballistic quality.
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