Malaysia : Man From Singapore Busted For Counterfeit Toner

Date: Thursday January 10, 2013 08:58:04 am

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Malaysia : Man From Singapore Busted For Counterfeit Toner 
BUSTED: Singaporean uses HP packaging to hoodwink buyers
 KUALA LUMPUR: POLICE busted an international syndicate that had been raking in millions of ringgit by supplying fake Hewlett Packard printer ink to the Middle East and African countries with the arrest of a Singaporean here on Tuesday.
 Federal Commercial Crime Department director Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said police made their move following information from HP representatives in the United States.
 “HP made a statutory declaration (SD) on the case and we launched our investigation after receiving the SD,” Syed Ismail said.
 It was understood that the SD was necessary in investigations involving copyright issues.
 Syed Ismail said police moved in on the main suspect, a 38-year-old Singaporean, and seized two boxes of ink cartridges from him.
 The suspect, who is married to a local, then took police to his condominium unit in Brickfields.
 “There, we seized several documents and a computer.”
 Syed Ismail said the suspect led police to an industrial area in Bukit Permai Utama, Ampang where the fake ink was produced and packed using HP packaging.
 Police arrested a 48-year-old local woman, believed to be the man’s business partner, and 11 Myanmar workers at the premises.
 “We also seized 252 boxes of ink cartridges, several computers and documents.”
 He said investigations revealed that the syndicate had been operating for two years. Their main clients were in Bahrain and Tunisia.
 “We also believe they used re-cycled ink cartridges to distribute their products,”
 Syed Ismail said the Singaporean was arrested last year for the same offence during a joint operation between police and the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry.
 “They handled the investigations. We do not know what happened to that case,” he said, adding that police would be working closely with HP on this case. 
 
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