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Fake officers selling fake cigarettes

Fake People's Armed Police arrested On July 6, three men clad in the uniform of the PAP were arrested by (real) police for hawking fake brand name cigarettes in Zhangmu, Guangdong province. The three men were trying to persuade grocery store owners to... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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