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I used to work from scratch. A month later, he sent the shoes in Italy. "He'll ask for more when there's nobody left," says Lin recently told me with confidence. A merchant in Italy an order to a shoe factory in Putian China for 3,000 pairs of white shoes Nike soccer inside. But Lin did not matter. It was in early February, and the seller wanted to loan Times. A week later, Lin, who asked that I use only his first name, received a couple times of faith, led them, studied sewing and pressing, has developed its own design and oversaw the production of clones of Nike 3000. They have no plans or instructions. Neither he nor Lin, the plant was allowed to Nike.

In the mid-1990s, a new company specialized in counterfeit products, a true copy started Nike, Adidas, Puma and Reebok. "What we do depends on the order," said Lin. It was not uncommon for models appearing on the first stores of infringement in fact true. In the late 1980s, multinational corporations from all sectors have begun to outsource production to factories in the coastal provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang. To Putian, was sneakers. "But if someone wants to Nike, Nike will make." Putian, a sanctuary for the production of counterfeit sneakers, a lawyer based in China Intellectual Property, he said, is in southeast China's Fujian province, facing Taiwan Strait. Industries tend to concentrate in certain cities and provinces. Lin spent most of his shoes to make the lives of adults, but did not enter the trade in counterfeit goods five years ago. Counterfeiters player playing low-budget espionage, bribery of employees in establishments authorized to increase his diagram. Even the shoes were thrown into a wall of the building, a worker in a Nike factory in Putian.

sneakers have arrested several people of Balkan origin in New York and New Jersey for his alleged involvement "to import large quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, oxycodone, anabolic steroids, over a million ecstasy tablets and counterfeiting. Dean Phillips, the head of the FBI's Asian / African Criminal Enterprise Unit, described the actor as a counterfeit "smart" for criminals. Of course, as producers of coca in Bolivia and the cut of opium in Afghanistan, Lin did not have much money, and operation of the import and distribution networks. But if you are caught with three kilos of cocaine, up to 4-6 years. A notice of vacancy on the wall near the door looking for people with sewing techniques for all teams, the report does not mention that the work was illegal. Thus the diversification of the Interpol .. One analyst said: "If you're trapped in a container of counterfeit shoes, losing their possessions and get a mark on their customs documents. Last year, for example, things are often simply assumed Putian FBI. Running a shoe factory in false-Lin is in the midst of billions transnational corporation which produces, distributes and sells counterfeit goods. The benefits are high, while the penalties are low.

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