Syndicate of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry’s Selangor branch found to be buying and re-selling counterfeit printer cartridges.
New Straits Times reports that the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry in Selangor has found that a syndicate has been illegally buying and reselling counterfeit printer cartridges.
An enforcement team raided three premises, a factory, a shop and a house, seizing 3,252 fake cartridges falsely labelled as OEM brands, along with a compressor machine and cartridge cleaning machine reportedly worth RM500,000 ($156,000/€118,000), following a tip-off from a printer company.
Othman Nawang, enforcement chief, said that “two local workers in their 20s were also detained at the factory”, adding that the suspects were alleged to have purchased the cartridges for between RM5 ($1.56/€1.18) and RM12 ($3.75/€2.84) per unit and resold them for between RM50 ($16/€12) and RM180 ($56/€43) each.
The Recycler recently reported on the largest ever counterfeit cartridge seizure, which took place following raids by police officials and HP on five premises in the UAE during April and resulted in the seizure of around 150,000 laser printer cartridges, 100,000 fake cartridge boxes, 50,000 security labels and more than 750,000 empty printer cartridges said to be worth almost $76 million (€57 million).