Man sold counterfeit Cisco products in the US 2.5

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords FBI Cisco routers Li Yongcai Cisco products Central place
Beijing time February 6 morning news, according to foreign media reports, a Chinese citizen for illegal sale of counterfeit Cisco products in the United States was sentenced to 2.5 imprisonment, and to the Cisco to pay nearly 800,000 U.S. dollars of compensation.  The FBI, the FBI, said in Friday that his name was Li Yongcai (Yongcai Li), aged 33, who sold counterfeit Cisco products worth hundreds of thousands of of dollars illegally. Court documents show that Li Yongcai English name Michael Michael Lee, who sells products through a company called Gao Yi Technology (Gaoyi Tech). Prosecutors said Li Yongcai procured the equipment in China and then shipped it to the same American accomplice.  But the FBI said his accomplices were not charged. Li Yongcai was arrested January 9, 2009 by the FBI in Las Vegas, the United States, when the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held. He confessed to the illegal sale of counterfeit goods last September.  This Monday, the U.S. District Court in Central California formally sentenced to it. The FBI has been cracking down on counterfeit Cisco routers since 2005. The agency said two years ago that it had uncovered more than 400 cases and seized more than $78 million in counterfeit equipment. Counterfeit network devices are often pieced together with lower performance originals to achieve the advertised performance. In recent years, some security experts have found that counterfeit network equipment poses an increasingly serious threat to America's network infrastructure. (PEI)
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