CBP Shuts Down VA Woman's Electronics Counterfeiting Conspiracy
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that a Chantilly, Va., woman, Chun-yu Zhao, recently received a 60-month prison sentence and heavy financial penalties for conspiring to import counterfeit computer networking equipment. CBP’s National Targeting and Analysis Group (NTAG) in California pieced together common elements in hundreds of unrelated shipments that ultimately identified the Zhao operation.
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CBP notes that the smoking gun in this case was a shipment of bogus Cisco Systems labels that the NTAG identified and referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These phony labels indicated Zhao’s knowledge and intent to import and sell counterfeit goods.