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A week later, Lin, who asked that I use only his first name, has a couple of times faith led them, studied sewing and pressing, has developed its own design and oversaw the production of 3000 Nike clones. A month later, he sent the shoes in Italy. Neither he nor Lin, director of the plant were allowed to Nike. They have no plans or instructions. "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. I used to work from scratch. It was in early February, and the seller wanted to loan Times. Lin did not matter.

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. "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. Counterfeiters player playing low-budget espionage, bribery of employees in establishments authorized to increase his diagram. It was not uncommon for models appearing on the first stores of infringement in fact true. To Putian, was sneakers. Industries tend to concentrate in certain cities and provinces. In the mid-1990s, a new company specialized in counterfeit products, a true copy started Nike, Adidas, Puma and Reebok. Even the shoes were thrown into a wall of buildings, a worker in a Nike factory in Putian. Lin spent most of his shoes to make the lives of adults, but did not enter the trade in counterfeit goods five years ago. "What we do depends on the order," said Lin.

Of course, as coca growers in Bolivia and the cut of opium in Afghanistan, Lin did not have much money, and operation of the import and distribution networks. The benefits are high, while the sanctions are low. A vacancy announcement 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. Interpol One analyst said: "If you're trapped in a container of counterfeit shoes, losing their property and get a mark on your customs documents. But if they are caught with three kilos of cocaine, down to 4-6 years. The management of a shoe factory in false-Lin is in the midst of billions transnational corporation which produces, distributes and sells counterfeit products. Last year, for example, things are often simply assumed the FBI in Putian. This is why diversification.. 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.

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