Counterfeit LEGO products: Chinese police raiding LEPIN

On social networks, the Chinese police announces, after an investigation launched in October 2018, that they intervened on April 23 in the premises of the company Junlong Toys which produces and distributes the LEPIN brand.

Three warehouses located in Shantou and Shenzhen were raided and more than 90 production molds, more than 200.000 packages, nearly 630.000 finished products with a market value of nearly 200.000.000 Yuan (about 27 million euros). been seized. Several suspects were arrested, including a certain Li who would be the operations manager.

Chinese police, who welcome and extol the "determination of the security organs to crack down on infringements of intellectual property rights"is not stingy in photos of what was seized at the scene of the intervention.

Simple media operation to please LEGO, which is currently making large investments in the country or a real desire to dismantle the networks of counterfeit LEGO products, the future will tell us what impact this police operation will have on the market concerned.

Below, all the photos uploaded by the Chinese police, including reproductions of very recent The LEGO Movie 2 product packaging, Captain Marvel minifigs, different types of molds and many employees who have just lost their work.