Woman Sentenced to 60 Months for Importing Counterfeit Cisco Computer Equip

The Justice Department has announced that a Virginia woman, Chun-Yu Zhao, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, ordered to pay $2.7 million in restitution and a $17,500 fine. for leading a conspiracy to import and to sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, and other charges. Zhao and her family members and other co-conspirators in China agreed to lie on declaration forms and to sell shipments of counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment and used counterfeit labels and packaging to mislead consumers into believing that they were purchasing genuine Cisco products.