Four men have appeared in court after they were arrested for selling counterfeit
stock feeds packaged in National Foods Limited branded 50kg bags.
Patson Sungai (22), Learnmore Chari (36), Lazarus Musariri
(34) and Timothy Masiiwa (31) appeared before Mbare Magistrate Stanford
Mambanje facing two charges of unlawful use of a trademark as defined under the
Trademark Act chapter 26:04.
They are also accused of Contravening Section 6 (a) of the
Statutory Instrument 79 of 2017 on purchases, possession and disposal of
agricultural inputs. According to the State, the four accused unlawfully and
intentionally used the trade mark name of National Foods to sale their
counterfeit stock feeds products realizing that there is real risk or
possibility that it is not the product of National foods limited.
The court heard that On 25 April 2019, the four were
arrested at Nenyere flats in Mbare after the Mbare District police had received
a tip-off that the accused were selling fake and toxic stock feeds in National
Foods packaging. Police have since recovered six 50kg bags of presidential
input seeds, eight 50kg of bread crumbs, eight 50kg of the counterfeit stock
feeds, three stitching machines and National foods Limited product tugs at
number 5 Block C5 Nenyere flats in Mbare.
The four denied the charges and were granted $40 bail with
the magistrate saying they were first time offenders.
The case was remanded to 12 June. Sunday Mail
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