Authorities raided Hong International Cigarette Factory and found counterfeit JET cigarettes and 555 cigarettes.
(Phnom Penh): A joint police force under the leadership of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on January 4, 2022, inspected the International Bari Hong factory and found many exhibits related to Manufactures and distributes a large number of counterfeit JET cigarettes and counterfeit 555 cigarettes.
According to the authorities, this operation took place after the Department of Economic Crimes has been researching and investigating for more than a year.
Authorities claim that on September 21, 2020, the Department of Economic Crime received a complaint that counterfeit JET cigarettes were being traded in the Kingdom of Cambodia, and that the Department of Crime had been investigating and investigating for more than a year.
Police also claimed that on January 3, 2022 at 14:45, the Anti-Intellectual Property Office of the Economic Crimes Police Department, led by Major General Long Sreng, Deputy Director of the Department, stopped a car. White HYUNDAI brand license plate Phnom Penh 2J-5930 in the truck parking lot (near the traffic light), Sangkat Boeung Salang, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, suspected of transporting fake JET cigarettes. After a thorough inspection, the police found 47 counterfeit JET cigarettes.
Police said that with the coordination of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, the police brought the car and the driver, Nia Narin, male, 38 years old, back to the original location where the cigarettes were transported to the Hong Bari factory. International, Ang Ta Minh Street, Trung Moan Village, Sangkat O Bek Kam, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh. On the morning of January 4, 2022, at 8:50 AM, the joint authority under the coordination of the Procedure from the Prosecutor's Office of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court continued the inspection process of Bari Hong International Factory in the search operation. A large number of exhibits related to the production, packaging and distribution of counterfeit JET cigarettes and counterfeit 555 cigarettes are in stock.
These exhibits include:
1: JET cigarettes packaged in 47 packs and 140 packs equal to 23,640 packs
2: 200,230 JET cigarette packs equal to 995 kg
3: 16,500 JET cigarette packs equal to 180 kg
4: 380 cases of foam cigarettes equal to 7,600 kg
5: 2,057 BAT stamps
6: 2,808 VN DUTY NOT PAID stamps
7: A white HYUNDAI car with license plate Phnom Penh 2J-5938
8: 70-barrel pack of cigarettes equal to 59,500 kg
9: 140 packs of unpackaged cigarettes, equal to 700 kg
10: 32 cigarette wrappers equal to 4,768 kg
11: 790 cases of aluminum shell equal to 30,020 kg
12: 7 cigarette packaging machines
13: 2 cigarette butts round machine equal to 2 units
139,453 kg of counterfeit cigarettes
* 23,640 packs of JET cigarettes
4,866 BAT and VN DUTY NOT PAID stamps
* 7 cigarette packaging machines
* 2 cigarette butts
* A white HYUNDAI car with license plate Phnom Penh 2J-5938
After the inspection, the representative of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided to confiscate the above materials and temporarily store them at the Economic Crimes Police Department and close the door of the warehouse and the entrance of the factory. The owner of the above location, Ngov Mok, was temporarily arrested and sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for legal action, and Ngov Srun, a male, was on the run. Produces Hong international cigarettes.