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Title: Man gets 3 years in Federal Prison for trafficking counterfeit iPhones
Post by: HCK on October 23, 2019, 04:05:20 pm
Man gets 3 years in Federal Prison for trafficking counterfeit iPhones

The counterfeit devices - image via AppleInsider

The former engineering student pled guilty to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods.

What you need to know

A 30 year old Chinese national has been sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking counterfeit iPhones
The former student shipped inoperable, counterfeit iPhones to the US from Hong Kong.
Working with a friend, these phones were sent to Apple for repair before being shipped back to China for resale, netting the two an estimated $900,000.
A 30 year old Chinese national has been sentenced to 37 months in US Federal Prison after pleading guilty to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods. Quan Jiang, a former Linn Benton Community College engineering student, will also serve 3 years' supervised released after admitting he shipped counterfeit iPhones from Hong Kong to the U.S.

According to AppleInsider, between January 2016 and February 2018, Jiang recieved shipments of bricked, counterfeit ...

Source: Man gets 3 years in Federal Prison for trafficking counterfeit iPhones (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/VBbUCOKqQqE/chinese-national-gets-3-years-us-federal-prison-over-iphone-trafficking-scam-cost-apple-900000)