Police detain three for producing fake paint
BEIJING - Three men suspected of making and selling fake paint in the outskirts of this city have been detained and are likely to face stiff punishments in the future, an official with the district's public security bureau said on Thursday.
The three men are suspected of turning a room they were renting into a factory churning out the fraudulent products, which they are believed to have kept in two storehouses in Beijing's Fangshan district. For more than eight months, they supplied the fake paint to hardware stores, said Han Xiujie, spokeswoman for the public security bureau in the area.
"They used empty cans from popular paint brands, such as Nippon and Dulux, and fake raw materials," she said. "The price of their paint was only 20 yuan ($6) a can, which was much cheaper than the real stuff, which costs about 170 yuan at the market. They could sell as many as 300 cans a day."