Seven vendors at Beijing's Silk Market have been ordered to stop and rectify their business for selling counterfeit famous brand goods.
According to a vendor surnamed Cao, the market's management department summoned them to a meeting on January 21, and told them that complaints had been received accusing certain vendors of selling fake famous brand goods and the department showed them a notarized deeds with photos of the allegedly fake goods. The vendors said that they could not accept being punished on the evidence of a notorized document as they had sold these fake goods.
According to Beijing Times, the vendors disobeyed the order and they formed an alliance to resist the market management department which asked them to stop business for seven days to rectify the. They fought with the security guards who came to seal their booths and were finally forced to stop by the police.
A representative from Silk Market said that according to an agreement signed between the market and an anti-counterfeit company, whenever the latter issues a notarized document as evidence that there are fake goods in the market, the market must punish the seller concerned immediately. The person said that vendors should go to the notary's department if they have any inquiry on the notarial deeds.
