Non-tobacco flavored vapes are banned by the state. A young couple born in the 2000s in Yichang openly sold this illegal product in WeChat Moments. On October 28, the Public Security Bureau of Yichang City, Hubei Province, announced that the task force followed a report clue and cracked a cross-provincial vape illegal operation case involving nearly 10 million yuan.
In April this year, the Tobacco Monopoly Department of Yichang City received a report from citizens that someone was selling water-flavored vapes in WeChat Moments. After preliminary understanding, the sellers were a young couple in Yichang City. According to the law enforcement officers of the Tobacco Monopoly Department, according to relevant management measures, the sale of flavored vapes other than tobacco flavors is prohibited in China. Therefore, the clue was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Xiling District Branch of the Yichang Public Security Bureau. The police investigation found that the seller did not have a relevant business license, and the amount of non-national standard vapes sold by him had reached the standard for filing a case.
From April to August, the special police controlled the salesmen Zhou Yiming and his wife, and successively investigated Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places, and successively arrested the suspects Hu Botao and Xie Donghua who were responsible for production and storage. According to the police in charge of the case, an illegal production den was seized in an industrial park in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. More than 250,000 non-national standard electronic cigarette cartridges, more than 1,600 kilograms of e-liquid, 44 counterfeiting equipment, and more than 100,000 vape packaging papers were seized on the spot, and the marked value of the items involved was more than 9.76 million yuan.
According to the confession of the criminal suspect Xie Donghua, from the second half of 2023, he and Hu Botao bought production machines, shell materials, e-liquids and outer packaging, jointly organized production and transportation, and gradually developed Zhou Yiming and others to be responsible for sales. After investigation, the criminal gang’s activities involved 28 provinces and cities across the country. In order to evade crackdowns, they have been transporting non-national standard electronic cigarette cartridges many times, and then repackaging and mailing them.
The police told reporters that Zhou Yiming and his wife were born in the 2000s. The fruit-flavored vapes they sold were very confusing and more likely to induce young people or even minors to try them, so they were very harmful to society.
At present, the special police have arrested 12 suspects on suspicion of producing and selling counterfeit products and illegal business operations. (All suspects in the article are pseudonyms)
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