Illegal jeans factory raided

Illegal jeans factory raided

BOGOR: An illegal jeans factory, owned by Abdul Halim, in
Tanah Bari village, Bogor, West Java, was raided by the Bogor
District Police after being suspected of making imitations of
designer label Lea jeans.

Police managed to confiscate some 1,230 fake jeans and 16
sewing machines from the factory.

Deputy of the police detectives division, First Insp. Djajang
Nurjaman, said on Friday that police raided the factory after
receiving a report from Binsar Limbong of the Lea office.

Prior to the report, Binsar had made an investigation to
confirm the production of the fake jeans, which can be easily be
differentiated from the original Lea jeans.

The original has a LEA 45 mark on the zipper, a leather label
on the back of the trousers, and an unfaded orange label attached
to the inner fold.

Official said that the production of fake jeans had been
running for three months, involving 14 employees. --JP