Celebrity purchase leads to charges

SHANGHAI: Having a celebrity like Celine Dion walk into your store would usually be the best kind of free advertising a business could hope for.

Unfortunately for a Shanghai store that sold pirated luxury handbags, the incident brought so much attention they were busted for selling fake goods.

Owners Lin I'chung and Wu Beiwen must now compensate Louis Vuitton 500,000 yuan ($73,000) and stop selling Louis Vuitton Malletier goods, the Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court ordered yesterday.