Kaohsiung man arrested for taking used water bottles, filling them with tap water and selling them as ‘Danfeng’ mineral water
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/16
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Kaohsiung Prosecutors Office is charging a man on multiple
Used water bottles awaiting repackaging. (By Central News Agency)
counts for selling bogus bottled water over the course of 10 years, reported Liberty Times.
On March 13, Kaohsiung authorities announced that they had raided the home of a 51-year-old man surnamed Lee (李), who had gone through a female accomplice surnamed Chen (陳) to collect discarded “Danfeng Water” (丹楓之水) bottles and then fill them with public tap water inside his apartment. He would then take the fake “mineral water” and sell it hotels and barbecue restaurants in the Kaohsiung Area.
After an investigation, authorities discovered that Lee had been operating the sham water business for 10 years and had made NT$3.36 million (US$115,000) in illegal profits. Lee and Chen were charged with theft, fraud, trademark infringement and violation of the food hygiene law, among other crimes, and the two were released on NT$50,000 and NT$20,000 bail respectively. [FULL STORY]