7 arrested in HCMC with 10,000 fake Chanel, Bvlgari, YSL perfume bottles
A couple and five of their accomplices in Ho Chi Minh City have been arrested for allegedly importing fake Chanel, Bvlgari, and YSL perfumes and selling them on social media.
Lu Hung Phat, 30, and Tran Thi Bich Lien, 29, will be questioned by the city police after being taken in last Saturday for trading counterfeit goods, smuggling and tax evasion.
They raided the business registration address, a packaging facility and a warehouse registered in the couple’s names, and seized over 10,000 fake perfume bottles worth an estimated VND10 billion (US$382,000) if they were genuine.
Phat and Lien have confessed to buying the perfumes from smuggling rings that brought them from China to Vietnam.
They rented multiple locations to clandestinely store the goods and employed five people to sort and package them.
According to authorities, the group exploited communications applications and online groups to distribute the counterfeit goods to customers in many provinces and cities.
By Quoc Thang – VnExpress.net – June 22, 2025