A ring of underground workshops producing millions of counterfeit brand-name condoms — including Durex, Contex and Jissbon — was busted by police in central and east China.
Cops confiscated 4.65 million already packaged prophylactics and another 1,100 pounds of unpackaged condoms were found at the scene.
In a dimly lit room in the countryside of southeast China’s Fujian province, dozens of workers were busy on a production line, lubricating the condoms when cops raided.
The floor was piled high with the contraceptives, and according to police, the stench of the cheap oil lubricants was nauseating.
The racket was exposed in February when a policeman in Fujian province noticed that a store on Taobao.com, China’s most popular online shopping site, was selling ridiculously low-priced condoms.
He bought a few to test, and they proved to be fakes. The police then traced the fake products from the online store to a network of underground workshops.
A total of 37 suspects from Fujian, Zhejiang and Henan provinces were arrested during the police raid on the workshops on March 29.
The details were announced by the police on Tuesday.
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