MARK MORRI
July 31, 2012
The Daily Telegraph
A MASSIVE quantity of counterfeit washing powder has been found in Sydney’s south-west today.
Police found 33 tonnes of the fake white powder in storage units in south west Sydney at an industrial estate in Chipping Norton.
Officers found 3760 nine-kilo buckets of washing detergent inside the premises. The square pails were labelled as OMO, but police will allege they contain an inferior counterfeit powder.
Two men are currently assisting police with their inquiries and are expected to be charged with possess/sell goods with false trademark.
It will be alleged the men imported bags of detergent and OMO-branded buckets separately from China. They then filled the buckets and allegedly sold them to convenience stores in south-west Sydney and holders of market stalls.
Unilever, the registered owner of the OMO brand in Australia, advises consumers that if they come across a bucket of OMO labelled “made in Chinaâ€, it will be fake – as buckets of the detergent are not made there.
About 9.30am (Tuesday 31 July 2012), officers attached to the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad and Liverpool Local Area Command executed a search warrant at an industrial estate in Chipping Norton.
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