????馬努基·巴爾加瓦是Living Essentials公司的母公司——?jiǎng)?chuàng)新風(fēng)投公司（Innovation Ventures，位于密歇根州法明頓山）的所有人，最近憑借“5小時(shí)能量”飲料的銷售登上“福布斯富豪榜”（Forbes Billionaire）。公司稱，自Living Essentials從2004年開始生產(chǎn)這種飲料以來(lái)，公司已經(jīng)賣出超過(guò)15億瓶它所謂的“飲食補(bǔ)充劑”產(chǎn)品。巴爾加瓦曾多次表示，公司的產(chǎn)品不存在安全風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。到目前為止，公司或美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部都還沒(méi)有收到任何報(bào)告，表明與假冒產(chǎn)品批號(hào)匹配的正品飲料引發(fā)了健康事件。

????法庭文件稱，波特向美國(guó)地區(qū)法官威廉·阿爾索普?qǐng)?bào)告稱，位于紐約州長(zhǎng)島朗肯科瑪?shù)囊患夷赇N售額數(shù)十億美元的批發(fā)經(jīng)銷商Quality King在向Living Essentials提供的信息中透露，該公司在倉(cāng)庫(kù)中囤積了超過(guò)600,000瓶假冒“5小時(shí)能量”飲料。文件稱，Quality King和另外一家大型批發(fā)經(jīng)銷商Victory Wholesale Grocers都曾向連鎖藥店CVS Caremark銷售假冒能量飲料。

????這兩家公司都沒(méi)有就此發(fā)表評(píng)論。

????2012年8月6日至2012年11月1日期間，Quality King曾表示，該公司從位于加州的一家名為Dan-Dee的公司采購(gòu)了超過(guò)870,000瓶飲料。法庭文件顯示，直接從圣地亞哥工廠進(jìn)貨的Dan-Dee公司是該造假集團(tuán)的“全國(guó)集散中心”。Dan-Dee公司通過(guò)Baja Distributors公司運(yùn)送產(chǎn)品，而Baja Distributors的實(shí)際控制人約瑟夫與賈斯汀·沙尤塔被Living Essentials公司指控為“全國(guó)造假集團(tuán)的主要頭目?！蔽募Q，Dan-Dee公司為約15，000箱共計(jì)超過(guò)300萬(wàn)瓶假冒產(chǎn)品向Midwest Wholesale Distributors公司支付了超過(guò)380萬(wàn)美元。而Midwest Wholesale Distributors公司的幕后老板也是約瑟夫與賈斯汀·沙尤塔，以及另外一名據(jù)稱是“主要頭目”的瓦利德·賈米爾。

????目前，被指控的相關(guān)人員或其律師均未發(fā)表任何評(píng)論。

????譯者：劉進(jìn)龍/汪皓

????Manoj Bhargava, owner of Innovation Ventures of Farmington Hills, Mich., the parent company of Living Essentials, is a new member of the Forbes Billionaire's list, thanks to sales of 5-Hour Energy. Since Living Essentials began manufacturing the drinks in 2004, the company says it has sold more than 1.5 billion bottles of what it calls its "dietary supplementary" products.

????Bhargava has repeatedly insisted his product is not a safety risk. So far, no health incident has been reported to the company or the USDA from products that match the lot numbers of the fake goods.

????Potter told U.S. District Judge William Alsup that?Quality King, a multi-billion dollar a year wholesale distributor based in Ronkonkoma, Long Island New York, had more than 600,000 bottles of fake 5-Hour Energy drinks in its warehouses, according to information Quality King provided to Living Essentials, the court documents say. Quality King and another large wholesale distributor, Victory Wholesale Grocers, both sold counterfeit energy drinks to the drug store chain, CVS Caremark (CVS), the documents say.

????The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

????Between August 6, 2012 and Nov. 1, 2012, Quality King said it had bought more than 870,000 bottles of the drinks from a California-based company called Dan-Dee Company, which was the "national distribution hub" for the conspiracy, and got the products directly from the San Diego factory, according to the court documents. Dan-Dee shipped the products through Baja distributors, a company controlled by Joseph and Justin Shayota, who are accused by Living Essentials of being "among the kingpins of the nationwide counterfeiting conspiracy." The documents say Dan-Dee paid more than $3.8 million for nearly 15,000 cases containing more than 3 million bottles of the counterfeit products to Midwest Wholesale Distributors, a company controlled by Shayota and another alleged "kingpin," Walid Jamil.

????None of the accused or their attorneys had any immediate comment.