California Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Counterfeit Laptop Batteries From China

California Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Counterfeit Laptop Batteries From China
An employee works at a production line of lithium ion batteries inside a factory in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Oct. 16, 2018. Joyce Zhou/Reuters
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A man in San Gabriel Valley, California, has pleaded guilty to being involved in a multi-million-dollar scheme to ship counterfeit laptop batteries and other electronics from China to the United States, where they were sold through online marketplaces.

The 29-year-old Chinese national, Zoulin Cai, who went by the name Allen Cai, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a statement.