A couple in the bonded area of Yantai, Shandong province, have been sentenced to prison with fines of more than 1 million yuan ($161,100) for making and selling wines using counterfeit labels of internationally renowned trademarks. The prosecutor said the case was the largest scale of its kind in the area.
In 2010 when company chairman Xu Weijiang learned that some other wine companies were making a profit by using fake trademarks, the company started to purchase bulk wine from South China, along with counterfeit wine bottles, labels, caps and corks, to produce fake wines using the production line it already had.
The brands counterfeited included Penfolds and Chateaus Lafite, Mouton and Beychevelle.
Source: China Daily
