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A multi-level marketing (MLM) operation in Kota Kinabalu was raided by the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry for trying to distribute 40,000 sachets of fake CNI Tongkat Ali and Ginseng coffee.
The ministry’s enforcement chief Suhaimi Mat Sari said the fake coffee sachets were seized from several premises in KK today.
Samples of the premixed coffee, which totalled nearly RM60,000 in value, would be sent to the ministry’s Chemistry Department for analysis.
“This is the first time we have seen a fake product being distributed through MLM that is similar to the original,” he told The Star Online‘s Ruben Sario.
“We believe this operation has been going on in Sabah for six months.”
Suhaimi said the packaging of the fake coffee was so similar to the original that members of the public would have difficulty telling them apart.
“We were able to pinpoint the fake ones from the batch numbers printed on the boxes,” he said.
He said the fake premixed coffee was believed to have been manufactured in the peninsula.
No arrests have been made yet in connection with the seizures.
