How do the police respond to 32 tons of fake drinks with an inverted fee?

How do the police respond to a report that 32 tons of fake drinks have to be unloaded and stored with inverted money? Who should pay for it? Recently, media reported that Wu Qiang, a young man engaged in beverage wholesale business in Jiangsu Province, bought 32 tons of fake Coke and Sprite a year ago. After the alarm, the police asked Wu Qiang to unload the fake beverage and store it in his own rented warehouse. Wu Qiang reported the fake drinks on April 28, 2018, until July 2018, when the police seized the goods and transferred them. During the three months, besides the loss of more than 60,000 yuan in goods and freight, Wu Qiang also paid 2,000 yuan in unloading fee and 3,000 yuan in warehouse rental fee during the period of seizure. For this reason, Wu Qiang was very distressed. He felt that unloading fees and warehouse rental fees should not be borne by him. Is it reasonable to have to refund money to report fake goods? Can Wu Qiang's losses be recovered?
Ao QQ group suppliers contacted Wu Qiang on their own initiative and received 32 tons of fake drinks
Ao Qiang, a founder of beverage business in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. He had been supplying drinks in an industry before. On April 24, 2018, a supplier in Dingzhou, Hebei Province, named "Ao Feng Business and Trade", contacted Wu Qiang on his own initiative. After adding Weixin, they further discussed. Finally, Wu Qiang decided to move from "Ao Feng Business" to Wu Qiang. Business"where the purchase, and then to local supermarkets, hotels supply.
Wu Qiang:"We have a QQ group in which bosses from all over the country are in. This person contacted me on his own initiative and said that there is a car of Coca-Cola. Because we are all in the QQ beverage group. We are all in the beverage industry. I sent 32 tons of Coca-Cola and Sprite from Dingzhou, Hebei Province to the four-season agricultural market in Lianyungang. The car was loaded on April 24, 2018." After loading the drinks, Wu Qiang paid $57.6 million. Four days later, 32 tons of drinks arrived in Lianyungang. But Wu Qiang found something wrong with the goods.
Wu Qiang:"When I first cooperated with this person, I saw something wrong. No matter what the production date is, there are minute, minute, minute, two minute and three minute. If his one is canned by machine, every package is different. His one is 2400 pieces, and 14400 bottles are produced at that point, that proves that the bottle is ready in advance, and then If I fill it again, I'll judge that it's false." In addition, Wu Qiang opened one of the bottles of drinks and tasted wrong, so he judged that the 32 tons of Coke and Sprite were fake, and then called the police. Wu Qiang: Irrational
Wu Qiang: "Take two of us (Wu Qiang and the driver) to the police station to record the entries and record the confessions. The next day, unload the goods directly into the warehouse. Let me find a loading and unloading worker and let me find a place to rent a new warehouse. I said I couldn't put it here. I had to do business. He said I had to put it here. We had no place to put so many drinks. Then I went to the stevedores to unload that. I said, can I put it in the open yard? He said no. The goods have been kept in the warehouse rented by Wu Qiang. In June 2018, Wu Qiang learned that the suspect, Li Mou, was detained by the Huai'an police in Jiangsu Province, and went to know how to deal with the fake drinks.
Wu Qiang: "The cost of the goods is 57600 yuan, plus the fare of 6600 yuan, plus the loading and unloading fee of 2000 yuan, plus the rental warehouse of more than 3000 yuan, which delays the loss of three months, I did not calculate. I said that I reported the fake goods back and paste, I have already lost the money of the goods and freight, and can no longer pile up in my warehouse. On June 10, in the QQ group, some people said that the man had been caught by Huaian police. I said that the man had been caught by Huaian police. The goods were still piled up in my warehouse. The case was filed for me on June 11. On July 20, 2018, Lianyungang Public Security Bureau seized the fake Coke and Sprite. Wu Qiang's list of seized items showed that 2 400 drinks were identified as fake. Wu Qiang believes that it is unreasonable for him, as a victim, to call the police as soon as he finds out that the drinks are fake, but to pay extra unloading fees and warehouse rental fees.
Police response: The police have no place to store and are trying to reduce Wu Qiang's losses
Why have the seized items been stored in the warehouse of the parties? Yesterday afternoon, Voice of China contacted the staff of Haizhou Branch of Lianyungang Public Security Bureau. The other party said that the main reason was that there were too many goods.
Police: This situation is also quite special, because there are many things, such as our police do not have such warehouses, there are such places to put. This kind of appraisal procedure is rather complicated. It must be authoritative, such as Coca-Cola or which company. It needs authoritative personages to appraise whether this is true or false. So it means that things should be sealed up at that time, and then there is no way to do it. It is also equivalent to our police renting a place and transferring it to them.
In response to media reports that "Haizhou Branch of Lianyungang Public Security Bureau is studying the application of judicial assistance for Wu Qiang to solve its practical difficulties", the staff member said that besides suggesting that the parties recover losses from the suspects through judicial procedures, the petition department, taking into account the actual losses of the parties, will apply for part of the funds to solve Wu Qiang's problem.
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2026-07-11
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