Three men in Germany discovered with “tons” of counterfeit printer cartridges.
Focus reported on the trio of men, who were recently sentenced to probation and 1,300 hours of community service by the District Court of Offenbach after it was discovered that they had been producing and selling clone cartridges; resulting in damages valued at “around €1 million ($1.4 million)”.
It was found that the men had been filling empty OEM cartridges with “cheap toner”, applying “false holograms from China” and then selling them on “as original commodit[ies]”; with the activity revealed after other vendors found the low prices “suspicious”. A search of the company in Obertshausen, Offenbach, then found 2,012 truckloads of counterfeit cartridges.
The sentencing was “based on an agreement between the prosecutor, defendant and court”. The Recycler previously reported on German authorities tackling the trade in counterfeit toner cartridges.