A police officer in Hung Yen Province, northern Vietnam, read out a prosecution decision to Nguyen Van Duong, owner of Duong Dolce store, on charges of infringing industrial property rights. Photo: To Kim Tuyen / Tuoi Tre
Provincial police said on Saturday that they had initiated a criminal investigation and charged Nguyen Van Duong, born in 2000 and residing in Than Khe Commune, with industrial property rights infringement.
The case followed an inspection of the Duong Dolce store in Hung Ha Commune, operated by Duong as a household business, by a team comprising local police officers and officials from the provincial Market Surveillance Sub-Department.
Cartons of footwear allegedly bearing the counterfeit Gucci trademark. Photo: To Kim Tuyen / Tuoi Tre
The team found 270 pairs of slippers bearing the Hermès logo, 12 pairs of Dior-branded shoes, eight pairs of Gucci-branded shoes, and 125 sets of Adidas clothing, all suspected of being counterfeit.
The goods had a total listed value of VND222.6 million (US$8,500).
Police are continuing to probe the case.
Cartons of footwear suspected of bearing the counterfeit Dior trademark. Photo: To Kim Tuyen / Tuoi Tre
A similar case recently occurred in Thai Nguyen Province, also in northern Vietnam, where local police charged Nguyen Van Duy, born in 2000, with infringing industrial property rights for allegedly selling 974 counterfeit clothing items bearing the Adidas, Louis Vuitton and Dior trademarks, valued at more than VND330 million (US$12,500).
