Italy Counterfeit And Check Up The Chinese Textile Factory! Or Will Face 8 Years' Imprisonment

After checking the factory and checking suppliers, a Chinese clothing boss was arrested 2 years to 8 years before Christmas.

According to foreign media reports:

On Tuesday, December 24th, Florence tax police conducted a series of investigations and verification before Christmas. Eventually, a 30 year old Chinese businessman in Osmannoro was arrested before Christmas. He was sentenced to 2 to 8 years' imprisonment for stealing and selling fake brand-name materials.

In fact, it was discovered that the Chinese businessman had learned that the manufacture of highly imitated merchandise came from a Chinese company because of the tax police inspection of many Chinese clothing and luggage factories. Therefore, the tax police decided to cut off suppliers of high imitation commodity factories from the source. In the warehouse of the Chinese company, the tax police found eleven thousand high imitation brand clothing, bags, mobile phone shell accessories, and one thousand meters long high imitation brand printed cloth, with a total value of 110 thousand euro.

Law enforcement officials say that such actions will continue in 2020 for fair market competition and brand protection.

Last month, Italy tax police eyed the Chinese "bag company", and the 12 million euro "profit" was turned over, and tax evasion millions of Europe.

The owner of a Chinese garment factory in Italy's Prato has been arrested by local financial police for hiding tax revenue of up to 12 million euros and avoiding tax, which amounts to 6 million euros.

The Chinese, who is 38 years old, has been eyed by the police for some time. After a series of measures such as visits, inspections, investigations and so on, the police found that the Chinese businessman had evade the company by way of business, and then evade the tax in the way of business in the purse companies.

In addition, the Chinese businessman also had illegal money laundering activities in unofficial channels, amounting to about 2 million 700 thousand euros. At the end of the inspection, the Prosecutor Office of the Prato court prosecuted 4 people, including the Chinese businessman and his 3 compatriots (all the legal representatives of the purse company).

The joint inspection unit of Italy is not satisfied with the regular Chinese factories, and does not give up any problems.

At the beginning of the month, Lombardia (Lombardia) menddo province military police bureau, Labor Inspection Bureau and local police went to a Chinese socks factory in Assola (Asola) town for a surprise inspection. (Mantova) Law enforcement officers found that 8 Chinese workers in the factory had working residence permits, and all workers had formal employment contracts, and the facilities and safety systems of small factories were all up to standard.

It is reasonable to say that all factories or companies that meet the requirements should be commended by local law enforcement agencies, but this batch of law enforcement officers are "very dissatisfied" with the regular Chinese factories.

After a recent survey, these Chinese workers have worked for more than 12 hours a day, and the wages and labor contracts received each month do not meet the requirements. For this reason, the factory owner, a Chinese couple, was arrested for exploitation of labor and contract fraud. All production machines and production materials valued at 100 thousand euros in the factory were confiscated. The Chinese boss's brother was also charged by the police for participating in factory management.

It is reported that during the inspection of textile manufacturing industry in Lombardia in 2019, many textile factories were secretly thrown into production after being checked. Some law enforcement agencies in the locals have turned a blind eye to it. In order to prevent this phenomenon from happening again, the Governor General of Lombardia province called the gendarmerie, the local police, the labour inspection bureau, the Health Bureau, and other relevant agencies to jointly inspect and supervise each other.

In July of this year, a number of Chinese enterprises were raided by Italy and hundreds of thousands of euros were withheld.

Prato police raid, Chinese enterprises were suspended.

According to Italy Notiziediprato website, in July 10th, Prato police and Labor Supervision Bureau conducted a joint surprise inspection on a local Chinese enterprise. The police found that the Chinese employees employed mostly were Chinese and Africans. There were 15 employees without any form of labor contract, of which 6 were illegal immigrants.

Subsequently, the Chinese enterprise was ordered to suspend operations. Chinese business owners have been prosecuted for assisting and hiring illegal immigrants and exploiting workers. The police also obtained video surveillance inside the enterprise for further investigation. Investigators said they would not rule out more sanctions against the Chinese company and its owners in the next few days.

It is reported that this is the third time that the enterprise has been raided. Earlier, the Chinese company was also found to have illegally hired workers.

Police raided Chinese textile factory 200 thousand euro equipment goods were buckled

Recently, a small town in Mantova province (Mantova) conducted a surprise attack on a local Chinese textile factory.

Italy Giornaledimantova website reported that around 11 o'clock in the evening of July 4th, Mantova local police and labor supervision bureau, industrial accident insurance bureau INAIL, Social Security Bureau INPS jointly launched a surprise inspection of a local Chinese textile factory.

A total of 15 workers were reportedly working in the textile mill. When the inspectors arrived, some workers stopped working and tried to escape, but they were stopped by the police. These workers include Chinese and Bangladeshi. The inspectors found that all 15 workers did not have any form of labor contract, while 4 others were found to be illegal immigrants.

In addition, the inspectors found that the living conditions of these workers were very bad, there were no special dormitories for them to live in, and they could only live in factories. Their rooms were very narrow and separated by plasterboard or paperboard.

The 4 illegal immigrants discovered were subsequently launched by the Mantova police station. The 45 year old Chinese boss of the textile factory has been arrested and will be prosecuted for illegal exploitation of workers and illegal employment of workers. At the same time, it will receive an administrative penalty of about 40 thousand euros. At the same time, the textile factory was also ordered to suspend operations, and equipment and goods with a total value of about 200 thousand euros were seized.

Italy exported 398 billion 282 million euros in 1-10, an increase of 2.7% over the same period.

Data released recently by the Italy National Bureau of Statistics website showed that Italy exported 398 billion 282 million euros in 1-10 months, an increase of 2.7% over the previous year, and imports of 355 billion 344 million euros, down 0.1% from the same period last year, with a surplus of 43 billion 38 million euros. Among them, exports to EU countries amounted to 224 billion 161 million euros, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year, and 208 billion 797 million euros from the EU countries, an increase of 0.3% over the same period last year. Exports to non EU countries amounted to 174 billion 121 million euros, an increase of 4.4% over the previous year, and 146 billion 447 million euros from non EU countries, down 0.5% from the same period last year.

Since the onset of the international financial crisis, Italy has been in recession for two times between 2008 and 2009 and 2012 to 2014. Early this year, Italy official statistics show that Italy will enter the third economic recession as a result of the continuous decline of GDP in the second half of last year.

The early report of Italy Federation of handicraftsmen and small businesses also showed that the average annual growth of GDP in Italy from 2000 to 2018 was 0.2%, close to "zero growth".

In the face of such a harsh economic situation, the "one belt and one way" initiative from the East will surely become a new round of improvement in Italy's infrastructure upgrading and trade links. In 2018, Italy was China's fifth largest trading partner in the EU, and China has become Italy's largest trading partner in Asia. Today, just after signing the memorandum of "one belt and one road", businessmen in Italy and China have more reasons to believe that closer cooperation will surely bring more fruit to the ancient Silk Road.