The factory in which the fake garments were produced
One of the fakes
Eight suspects have been detained for allegedly mass producing fake BOY London clothing, Shanghai police said on Monday.
They had allegedly sold about 6 million yuan (US$900,000) of the British fashion brand fakes over the Internet before they were caught.
Police in Yangpu District, in which the sales agent of the BOY London brand in China is located, started their investigation in December last year.
The Fanjin agency had reported that a shop on alibaba.com was selling clothing marked with their brand for between 100 and 200 yuan. The real products cost more than 1,000 yuan.
The clothing was identified as fake.
Police tracked two major suspects, a man surnamed Wang and a woman surnamed Zang who are a married couple, to Yuhang District in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, in early March. They caught two others on the same day in a factory in Haining City in Zhejiang.
Police said they seized more than 13,000 pieces of fake BOY London garments at the Haining factory. The equivalent real garments would retail for 15 million yuan.
Later last month, four other suspects who allegedly produced the fake labels and accessories of the clothing in Hangzhou were detained.
Zhang Jun, head of the company Fanjin, said the fake products were probably produced at a cost of 30 to 40 yuan per piece.
“Fake products use materials of far inferior quality,” he said.
He added that the BOY London trademark rubber label was missing from many fake garments.