Gotcha! China-based group that made its living trafficking and smuggling fake iPhone and iPad devices has plead guilty to charges of trafficking and conspiracy. Heading the group was one Jianhua ”Jeff” Li, ex-employee of Dream Digitals company. ”Jeff” conspired with at least three other persons, with whom he smuggled over fourty thousand fake iPhone and iPad units from China to US between years 2009 and 2014. The group’s method was relatively simple; Li was bringing their fake Apple products to the US separately from their counterfeit trademarks. Then, already in the US, he assembled the devices and put their fake trademarks on them. Proceeds from the sales were funneled into Florida and New Jersey bank accounts.

As far as we know, Li was caught during a regular airport checkout. Before getting busted, he and his group mader well over one million dollars from the operation. Li’s sentence will probably be several years in prison. One of his co-conspirators, Rosario LaMarca, is already sentenced to 37 months in jail, while two others, Andreina Becerra and Roberto Volpe, are still waiting for their sentences.