A store based in Ho Chi Minh City has been fined VND22.5 million (US$1076) for selling counterfeit condoms to their customers.
Police arrest group with fake money Consumers urged to protect themselves The ‘Buom Buom’ (Butterfly) shop located on District 6’s Ba Hom Street has been caught offering more than 1,400 packets of fake Durex condoms for sale.
The condoms are of inferior quality than those manufactured by Durex, according to the city’s Market Control Bureau, which imposed the administrative penalty.
Each packet was offered for sale at VND12,000 ($0.57), half the price of a ‘real’ one, they said.
Further investigations into the origin of the condoms are underway.