Chicago Car Shop Owner Arrested for Dealing in Counterfeit Airbags
The owner of a Chicago-area auto shop was charged with felony counterfeit trademarks after counterfeit airbags were found at the business, said ICE in a press release. The charges were a result of investigation by Cook County Sheriff’s Police, with…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
assistance from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations and CBP, it said. Law enforcement first went to the shipping address for a shipment of counterfeit airbags from China, the release said. "CBP officers had seized the airbag shipment earlier that week. Investigators learned that Grzegorz Lepkowski, who lived at the location, had ordered the airbags for his friend Stanislaw Gondek. CBP had previously notified Gondek on three separate occasions that the agency had seized counterfeit airbags that were originally to be shipped to his business." A search of Gondek's business turned up 24 counterfeit airbags, said ICE.