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Shanghai Police Crack Down on Transformers KOs, Raiding Factory and Arresting People

Date: Thursday, July 23rd 2020 8:46pm CDT
Categories: Company News, Knock Offs
Posted by: william-james88 | Credit(s): Shine.cn

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Big news for Hasbro's fight against knock off (KO) toys. There has been an investigation by the Shanghai police which started back in April when Hasbro China reported on Weijiang's activities. For those unaware, Weijiang is a Chinese company that makes knock off Transformers toys. This investigation has lead to a raid of Weijiang's factories and five arrests. The charges are for allegedly designing, producing and selling counterfeit Transformers toys. We also learnt of the process. A designer would take the the official toys apart and map out the designs he would then sell to Weijiang.
You can read more about this in the following article from Shine.cn: https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2007232766/ .