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Defendants in Court For Europe's Biggest Kyocera Counterfeit Toner Bust Ever.
Seven men have been in court since last Thursday in Darmstadt district court because of numerous infringements of trademark law. They are accused of selling over 25,000 recycled toner cartridges from the Japanese manufacturer Kyocera as originals to wholesalers between 2014 and 2017.
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The prosecution accuses the defendants between the ages of 34 and 53 of recycling original cartridges, filling them with toner and then placing them on the market as new branded goods. The turnover of more than 200 deliveries should have been according to prosecutors at around 1.5 million euros. BusinessPartner PBS reported last year on the case: Toner counterfeiting: Customs investigators lift counterfeiting workshop .
The investigators had received the reference to the activities of the men through the customs, which had noticed in Hamburg a container with Kyocera boxes and stickers, which proved to be a fake. The investigators followed the trail of the goods and thus stumbled upon the group that filled the cartridges in Groß-Umstadt, Frankfurt and Bad Homburg and maintained a camp in Dieburg in southern Hesse. The workshops and the warehouse were excavated during searches on 2 August 2017.
Before the start of the trial, Darmstadt Regional Court has scheduled around 20 negotiation days until December. After the indictment, some lawyers announced confessions and proposed a legal dispute with the court and prosecutors to speed up the process. The penalty for trademark infringement per delivery is between three and five years for potential culprits and one month to almost three years for accomplices.
Contact: http://www.ordentliche-gerichtsbarkeit.hessen.de , http://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.de
https://www.pbs-business.de/news/monitor/04-08-2017-zollfahnder-heben-faelscherwerkstatt-aus/
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