Influencer who sold fake luxury brand goods sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison = South Korea

An influencer in her 30s who generated billions of won in revenue by selling counterfeit products with designs from domestic and foreign luxury brands has been sentenced to prison.
On the 16th, Judge Cha Ho-sung of Daejeon, South Korea, was charged with violating the Design Protection Act and the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.
Instagram influencer A (34), who was arrested and indicted, was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison. Along with this, the corporation operated by Mr. A was sentenced to a fine of 20 million won (approximately 2.31 million yen).
, ordered the full amount of criminal proceeds, 2.43 billion won (approximately 281 million yen), to be collected. Mr. A and the six officers and employees arrested by the Japan Patent Office Technical Design Special Judicial Police (Technical Police) have submitted an indictment opinion to prosecutors.
He was referred to prison, but the prosecution was suspended first. According to the Technical Police, this is the first case in which Mr. A has been detained for collecting and preserving criminal proceeds for violating the Design Protection Act and the Unfair Competition Prevention Act. Mr. A is the same species
He was reported to have two previous convictions. For more than three years since November 2020, Mr. A has been working with 58 famous domestic and international brands, including CHANEL, TIME, and eenk.
Manufactured and distributed over 20,000 items of clothing, shoes, and counterfeit precious metals (regular price: 34.4 billion won, approximately 4 billion yen), and obtained criminal proceeds totaling 2.43 billion won (approximately 280.95 million yen). suspected
was handed over to court. In December 2021, he established a corporation for the sale and distribution of luxury brand counterfeit products, hired staff, and established a company with Korean manufacturers and overseas companies in the clothing, footwear, and precious metal sectors.
The company was investigated for producing counterfeit products through a local company. Mr. A buys a new product from a luxury brand store, imitates the design, produces it, and then returns it, adding his own label to the counterfeit product in order to avoid crackdowns.
I also posted a ru. Mr. A, who has over 10,000 followers on social networking services (SNS), uses his name recognition to publicize his products and attract the attention of buyers, after which he sells counterfeit products through a membership system.
It was understood that He also generated criminal proceeds through counterfeit goods, and posted on his social media accounts that he lives in a luxury villa in Gangnam, Seoul, and owns multiple luxury cars.
Judge Cha ruled that the crime was committed in a planned and organized manner by infringing on the intellectual property rights of trademark owners and others, disrupting commercial order, and employing a large number of employees.
The company continued, ``Despite being requested by the trademark right holder to stop trademark infringement, they continued to commit the crime, and even though they were being investigated, they committed additional crimes.''
"We took into consideration the fact that the consumer was aware that the product was in violation of trademark rights and purchased it."