Due to the current moratorium on inspection of entrepreneurs in Russia, the share of illegal trade in industrial products may increase. About Wrote Citing the message of the Izvestia newspaper, the international anti-counterfeiting association and the Center for Advanced Technology Development (CRPT).
According to experts of these organizations, cases of detection of “ghost businesses” in the country have recently become more frequent – companies whose representative offices are not located at the address indicated in the attached documents. The quality of the products produced by these companies often does not meet the standards.
As stated in the CRPT, 3.063 million violations were recorded in the perfume industry in the country in the first 11 months of 2022. In the same period, 363 million violations were detected in the dairy industry, of which 2.3 million were attempts to sell unauthorized products.
In addition, according to the National Center for Scientific Competence, the share of illegal tobacco in the Russian market in 2022 was 12.1%. As Igor Cherkassky, head of the anti-illegal trade department in BAT Russia, noted, about 1 billion counterfeit cigarettes were seized in Russia during the year.
Telegram channel Mash in the second half of December knowledgeableThat Russian stores began to fill up with fake Raffaello candies, where the share of fakes began to exceed genuine ones.