Shanghai police bust gang for fake Dyson hairdryers.
Shanghai police have cracked a criminal gang suspected of manufacturing and selling fake Dyson hairdryers, a fashionable icon coveted by the Chinese middle class and young people.
The gang of 36, based in Huizhou, Guangdong province, had a clear division of labour in production, wholesale and retail, said the police, who received reports from the public last August that some consumers had bought fake Dyson hairdryers from stores on various online shopping platforms.
Two production sites were raided, and the suspects were arrested on Dec 14 on suspicion of counterfeiting a registered trademark, police said last Friday.
Nearly 400 finished products, more than 1,500 semi-finished products and more than 200,000 spare parts were seized.
The hairdryers by Dyson, headquartered in Britain, have been popular since their market debut in China in August 2016.
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