According to the case data, after half a year's investigation, Xiangyang Public Security Bureau of Wuhan Railway Public Security Bureau successively destroyed 7 dens for producing fake cigarettes, 9 dens for selling fake cigarettes and 5 criminal gangs for transporting and selling fake cigarettes, arrested 3 1 person, and seized more than 50,000 counterfeit and illegally smuggled cigarettes, 2 1 ton of cut tobacco and 0 1.393 cigarette filter.
By the end of 20 19, 29 suspects in this case have been punished by law one after another, and the other two principals will be released on bail pending trial. Zhang Yue, a lawyer of Jing 'an Law Firm, told Time Finance that according to Article 140 of the Criminal Law, producers and sellers adulterate their products, pass the fake as the real, pass the inferior as the good, or pass the unqualified products off as qualified products, and the sales amount is more than 2 million yuan.
He shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 15 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than 2 times the sales amount, or his property shall be confiscated.