Finding fakes: Alibaba reported almost 4,500 leads on counterfeiting operations to authorities in 2016.
BEIJING: China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd blamed ambiguous laws and lax penalties at the root of its difficulties in enforcing laws against counterfeiting, as the firm lobbies to be taken off a US blacklist of marketplaces notorious for fakes.
In a statement, the e-commerce giant said it reported almost 4,500 leads on counterfeiting operations to authorities in 2016, but they resulted in just 33 convictions, a vast majority of which secured probation.
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