Prosecutor Julio Paredes Duarte presented charges against Alberto Cecilio Quintana Mellos (40), who owns a clandestine screen printing workshop.
He himself faces charges for the alleged punishable acts of violation of trademark rights and unauthorized marketing and use of chemical substances.
The incident was discovered during a raid carried out on Quintana’s property, located in the Padre Damián neighborhood of the Presidente Franco district. On the occasion, the prosecutor-police delegation He discovered the operation of the workshop, in one of the rooms of the house.
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Screen printing produced product labels and packagings, mainly chemicals (insecticide-fungicide), without legal authorization.
The labels included data on SENAVE records, manufacture, batch number, date of manufacture and expiration of the product, as well as other complementary data.
In addition, the defendant was apparently engaged in the illegal elaboration of logos of different brands, using the design of the distinctive ones in homemade matrices and using computer equipment, linear tables, laminating machines, printers and other elements and articles necessary to carry out these activities.
He himself operated without the apparent consent, requirement or authorization by authorities, companies or brand representatives.
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