Company director admits having almost 10,000 fake 3M masks for sale during COVID-19 pandemic

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SINGAPORE: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the director of a company realised that there was a demand for 3M-brand masks. He looked for a supplier and found one in Taiwan, but when a shipment was seized on suspicion of being counterfeit, he merely engaged a company to test the bacterial fil

SINGAPORE: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the director of a company realised that there was a demand for 3M-brand masks.

The court heard that the 36-year-old Singapore permanent resident was the sole director a company called Enam. Enam tried to find authorised distributors online, but some of them told him that they could not sell the masks to him, as they could sell only to front-line organisations battling COVID-19. The chairman told Enam that he was a reseller of 3M masks and could supply them to him, furnishing some documents that were purportedly from 3M.

Enam engaged a company, called SGS Testing and Control Services, to conduct testing on the bacterial filtration efficiency of the masks.

 

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