Vietnam police detect fake coffee produced in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai
Sunday, July 23, 2023, 20:30 GMT+7
Police in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have found dozens of metric tons of fake coffee produced in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring Dong Nai Province before being transported to many other localities for consumption.
Police officers in Dak Lak said on Sunday that they were completing procedures to handle units producing and trading the bogus coffee.
Officers of Ea Knop Town in Ea Kar District under Dak Lak Province on Wednesday last week checked a car driven by Le Van Khoa, a 33-year-old resident of north-central Thanh Hoa Province, on National Highway 26 heading to Buon Ma Thuot City, the capital of Dak Lak, and detected some 1.2 metric tons of powder which looked like coffee with many labels.
The driver failed to show proof of the origin of the batch.
The powder was later found to be fake coffee.
Police officers later inspected a coffee production facility named Trong Tin, which churned out fake coffee, in Bac Son Commune, Trang Bom District, Dong Nai Province.
The facility owner, Van Ba Dung, admitted to having asked drivers and salesmen to transport the bogus coffee to many central, southern, and Central Highlands provinces, including Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Phu Yen, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Ben Tre, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, and Dak Nong, for sale.
Police confiscated nine kilograms of fake coffee, eight bags of materials for fake coffee production, eight boxes of packaging products, and all machines at the facility.
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| The fake coffee confiscated by police in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam. Photo: Tam An / Tuoi Tre |
Police also caught driver Ngo Cong Son and Trinh Ngoc An, an employee of Tan Vinh Ky Co. Ltd. in Ho Chi Minh City, red-handed selling 120 packets of counterfeit coffee weighing some 60 kilograms to a woman in Krong Nang District, Dak Lak Province on Thursday last week without invoices.
Officers also found 621 kilograms of fake coffee produced by Tan Vinh Ky in the company's car without documents proving the shipment’s origin.
Expanding their investigation, the Dak Lak police seized some six metric tons of fake coffee, materials, and equipment at a production facility owned by Truong Cao Ky in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City.
A further probe is ongoing.
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