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Woman Sentenced to 60 Months for Importing Counterfeit Cisco Computer Equip

The Justice Department has announced that a Virginia woman, Chun-Yu Zhao, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, ordered to pay $2.7 million in restitution and a $17,500 fine. for leading a conspiracy to import and to sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, and other charges. Zhao and her family members and other co-conspirators in China agreed to lie on declaration forms and to sell shipments of counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment and used counterfeit labels and packaging to mislead consumers into believing that they were purchasing genuine Cisco products.

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(See ITT's Online Archives or 08/19/11 and 05/27/11 news, 11081911 and 11052722, for BP summaries of a man being sentenced for his role in this conspiracy his and Zhao's convictions in this case.)