Massive fake health and beauty supplies ring busted

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/justice/new-york-counterfeit-beauty-supplies/index.html

The items that are involved with this… are normally relatively inexpensive products… generally things that are counterfeited tend to be high priced items – think Viagra and the like.. Does this suggest that there is virtually NOTHING that is outside the possibility of being counterfeited ?

From the article:

It list the articles faked :

The counterfeits included everyday health and beauty items such as ChapStick, Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vaseline and Always sanitary pads.

They listed the major brand name manufacturers that normally produce these products

The fake products included ChapStick, Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vicks VapoRub, Vicks Inhaler, Vaseline and Always sanitary pads; the producers of the real products include major international brands such as Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, prosecutors said.

Here are the two brother accused of making these fake products

Brothers Pardeep Malik, 59, and Hamant Mullick, 60, are accused of running an enterprise whose products also turned up in Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities seized more than $2 million worth of products and were looking at bank accounts to determine the size of the enterprise.

Then the article states the following :

The brothers are accused of selling the products to distributors who, in turn, delivered them to retailers in New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. An investigation is underway to determine if there are more locations.

Why is the distributors who participated in this issue.. being withheld ?

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