A man has been arrested by police for selling fake mascots and
commemorative coins for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in
Beijing.???
According to the legal affairs department of the Beijing
Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), a man surnamed
Fu, was discovered selling the fake goods at a market in the city's
Haidian District.
"The five Fuwas, the mascots of the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games, were wrongly sequenced and they had no label or
authentication certificate. The colors of the counterfeited
commodities didn't? match those of the authentic products,"
said a department statement.
Police also found coins carrying the Beijing Olympic logo which
weren't produced by the China Banknote Printing and Minting
Corporation. They're the sole manufacturer entrusted by the BOCOG
to produce the coins.
"The coins were produced without the permit of the BOCOG and
manufactured in a rough way," said the department.
A spokesman from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau
Haidian District Branch said a local businessman surnamed Li told
police on July 25 this year that he'd bought 57,000 yuan (more than
US$7,200) of Olympic Games goods including commemorative coins and
badges from Fu.
Based on Li's report police investigated Fu's stall and found
that he was selling more than 20 types of commemorative coins and
mascots from previous Olympic Games. The price of the products
ranged from 200 yuan to 1,000 yuan. This is just 10 percent of
authentic goods.?
Fu is the first person to be arrested for selling fake 2008
Olympic Games commodities in Beijing.
(Xinhua News Agency December 8, 2006)