Coronavirus: boss of Chinese pharmacy chain gets 15 years for selling counterfeit face masks

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Li Dong, chairman of Beijing Jinghai Kangbaixin Medicine Co, and two of his associates were found guilty of selling counterfeit face masks at the height of China’s coronavirus epidemic.

The boss of a pharmacy chain in Beijing has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling counterfeit face masks at the height of China’s coronavirus epidemic.

The case dates back to January when Li bought and then sold through his chain of stores more than 580,000 fake masks advertised as being made by 3M. Demand for masks was soaring at the time as the coronavirus spread across the country. Kangbaixin issued a statement three days later apologising for Li’s behaviour and offering compensation – of three times the value of their purchases – to anyone who had bought the masks between January 23-26.The defendants said at a hearing in late March they believed the products to be genuine and had been tricked into buying them by a supplier who provided them with fake quality certificates, according to a report by Shanghai-based news website Thepaper.cn.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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