The Macau Customs Service said in a statement last night that it busted three pharmacies on Wednesday for selling fake-brand shampoo.
The statement said that the Macau Customs Service received a report from the Consumer Council (CC) earlier this month, in which a resident, whose gender was not revealed, had bought six bottles of shampoo from a chain pharmacy in the peninsula’s northern district that he or she suspected to be counterfeit.
On Wednesday, the statement said, customs officers carried out law enforcement operations at six chain pharmacies in the northern district, where they seized 38 bottles of suspected counterfeit shampoo from three of the six shops, and caught four local residents for their alleged involvement in the bogus brand sales.
Following appraisal by brand authentication personnel, the statement said, the 38 bottles of shampoo seized from the three shops, as well as the six bottles purchased by the resident, were all confirmed to be counterfeit.
The 44 bottles of shampoo in total were all counterfeits of the same product.
The statement said that 44 genuine bottles of this shampoo product have a market price of 2,640 patacas in total.
According to the statement, the shops’ owners admitted that they had bought the counterfeit bottles online and intended to sell them to make a larger profit.
The four local residents, aged between 31 and 39, have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for violating the intellectual property right law, the statement said.
This handout photo provided by the Macau Customs Service last night shows the 44 seized bottles of fake-brand shampoo.
This Customs Service handout photo released last night shows two customs officers putting a cordon around one of the three pharmacies where they and fellow officers seized some of the fake-brand shampoos on Wednesday.
