What are the penalties for selling fake goods?
Whoever sells counterfeit products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount. According to the law, products with certain usability properties are passed off as products with such usability properties, and impurities or foreign matter are mixed into the products, so that the product quality does not meet the quality requirements stipulated in national laws, regulations or product express quality standards, and is reduced or lost. It is a crime of selling fake and shoddy products if they have the proper performance.
How can consumers compensate for selling fake goods?
If an operator commits fraud in providing goods or services, he shall increase compensation for losses suffered by consumers as required. The amount of compensation shall be three times the price of the goods purchased by the consumer or the cost of receiving services; the amount of additional compensation shall be If the amount is less than 500 yuan, it shall be 500 yuan. If the law provides otherwise, such provisions shall prevail. If an operator knowingly provides goods or services that cause death or serious damage to the health of consumers or other victims, the victims have the right to comply with Articles 49 and 51 of the Consumer Rights Protection Law. The provisions require operators to compensate and have the right to request punitive damages of up to twice the amount.
Legal basis:
Article 140 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" * * *Producers and sellers commit the crime of producing and selling counterfeit and inferior products, passing off fake products as genuine, and Whoever passes off a substandard product as a good product or passes off a substandard product as a qualified product, with a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount. Fine; if the sales amount is more than 200,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years, and shall be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; if the sales amount is more than 500,000 yuan but less than 20%, If the sales amount exceeds 2 million yuan, the person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years and a fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount; A fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the amount or confiscation of property.