Protective suits illegally labelled as products of the Phuc Ha Company (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’s Procuracy has completed an indictment to prosecutefour people for selling counterfeit medical suits.
They are Truong Thi Binh, 38, deputy director of Duc Anh Medical Services andTrade Ltd Company based in Hanoi’s Dong Da district; La Van Thi, 38, salemanager of the company; Nguyen Duc Viet Anh, 33, sale employee of the company;and Hoang Van Toi, 31, staff of a hospital in Hanoi.
Accordingto the indictment, Hanoi police and the city’s Market Watch Department on April8 found Duc Anh Company’s employees had packed protective suits and labelledthem as products of two other companies – Phuc Ha Medical Equipment andPharmacy JSC in Bac Tu Liem district and Quang Trung Trade, Services andPrinting Ltd Company in Hoang Mai district.
From January to April 8 this year, Binh and her accomplices bought separateprotective suits, then made fake labels and sold them to earn profits.
The made a total of 14,587 fake protective suits to sell for an expected amountof more than 1 billion VND (42,900 USD).
Outof the fake protective suits, 4,285 ones were labelled as products of Phuc HaCompany and Binh sold nearly 3,000 protective suits for seven organisations andindividuals. Toi, staff at the examination department of a hospital in Hanoi,sold 4,000 protective suits for Binh./.
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