Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 26th (Reporter Lan Tianming) The reporter learned from the Shanghai Public Security Bureau on the 26th that the Shanghai public security organ recently successfully cracked a case of counterfeiting the registered trademark of Nike brand sports shoes, and the whole chain smashed the criminal industries such as plate making, production and sales, arrested 15 criminal suspects headed by Tian, and seized more than 60,000 pairs of counterfeit brand sports shoes, more than 100,000 pairs of semi-finished products and more than 500 sets of counterfeit equipment, involving a total amount of more than 120 million yuan.

　　It is reported that Yangpu Branch of Shanghai Public Security Bureau has set up a task force to carry out investigation since July this year. The police quickly arrested several criminal gangs selling counterfeit Nike brand sports shoes. These gangs buy a lot of goods from a fake factory in Putian, Fujian, and then wholesale them to Wechat business and online merchants for external retail.

　　The task force followed the line and locked the man Tian, who was suspected of committing a major crime, in Putian, Fujian. On November 6, the task force successively carried out arrests in the residential area where Tian lived and the fake factory, arrested 15 criminal suspects headed by Tian, seized more than 160,000 pairs of fake shoes of finished and semi-finished products, seized all production lines and fake equipment, and destroyed the fake factory in one fell swoop.

　　After investigation, since January, 2019, Tianmou began to produce counterfeit brand sports shoes according to the styles required by online shopping platform vendors or Wechat business, and also mass-produced limited edition, commemorative money and even shoes that the brand didn’t have at all. Tianmou also arranged for design and production and branded them.

　　These fake sports shoes are sold to the whole country through online stores or Wechat business platforms after wholesale by middlemen. In order to deceive consumers and avoid regulatory attacks, sellers often give low prices ranging from 20% to 50% off genuine products under the guise of internal purchase, tail orders and broken codes, and the prices range from several hundred yuan to nearly 1,000 yuan. In fact, the counterfeiting cost of each pair of shoes is only from 50 yuan to 80 yuan.

　　At present, 15 suspects such as Tian have been criminally detained by Yangpu police according to law, and the case is under further investigation.