Guizhou police said today they have detained three people suspected of forging the Lao Gan Ma company seal by posing as the company's marketing manager and entering into a fake cooperation agreement with Tencent.
Lao Gan Ma or Old Godmother is a brand of chili sauces made in China. The sauce is produced by Laoganma Special Flavour Foodstuffs Company, which was established in 1997.
The three people's purpose was to obtain the gift codes for online games that Tencent gave away as part of its promotional activities, and then to illegally obtain economic benefits by reselling them over the Internet.
According to Tencent, the matter involved more than 16 million yuan in economic losses.
On the afternoon of July 1, some media went to the Lao Gan Ma factory. A person in charge and a number of employees said that Tencent had never come to Lao Gan Ma to collect advertising fees, and Lao Gan Ma has also never worked with Tencent.
Lao Gan Ma never advertises," said the head of security at Lao Gan Ma's factory. Day we received the legal documents sent by Tencent, immediately reported to the police, June 20 Guiyang police opened a case and went to Shenzhen to deal with the matter."
He also stressed that the previous Shenzhen court ruled that Lao Gan Ma compensated Tencent more than 16 million advertising costs, the court ruled wrongly.
And when the court ruled the case, Lao Gan Ma's side did not know about it, even the company's marketing and management department did not know about it, and no one went to the court hearing, he claimed.
