Man jailed for high-end liquor forgery

A man has been sentenced to five years on conviction of high-end liquor forgery, a court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said in a press release Saturday.

The man, surnamed Wu, was convicted of counterfeiting high-end liquor, including expensive brands of Maotai, Wuliangye and Luzhou Laojiao.

Wu confessed to the court he began counterfeiting high-end liquor in April 2014.

In January, local police busted his illegal workshop in a rented farmhouse in Jiangnan District on the outskirts of Guangxi's regional capital Nanning, and confiscated more than 2,000 bottles of liquor with a combined market price of 714,561 yuan (111,900 U.S. dollars).

Wu confessed he had filled high-end liquor bottles with cheap alcohol and repackaged the bottles with anti-forgery tags to make them deceiving. The cost for each bottle was less than 100 yuan.

Wu said he was producing the counterfeit liquor for other dealers, and earned only 20 to 50 yuan of profits for each bottle. Most of the liquor was sold to Beihai City in Guangxi, he said.

In addition to his jail term, Wu had to pay 360,000 yuan in fines, according to the court's ruling. Endi