2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 2 Years for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
And 7 Elephants, of course.
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 2 Years for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
You could be on to something here.Cam Nivag wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:46 pm Isn't Smile Mart owned by the same guy who owns Super Duper and once reportedly tried to extort $2,000 from a shoplifter?
I wonder where this great defender of intellectual property rights got the idea for the design of his mini marts with thin stripe, thick stripe, thin stripe and use of orange and green. with the stripe decal cross the window?
How dare these Frenchies copy my copy of 7-Eleven!
If you turn your screen sideways and squint your eyes, 'Smile' actually looks like a Seven with eleven written across it.
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
This was ages ago. I'd say they're long gone.The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday found two French businessmen guilty of breaching the company’s trademark from 2012 to 2015
Probably already opened a chain of Smile Marts in Myanmar by now.
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
So this is what happened. You can never have enough Smiles, it seems.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50115075/fr ... en-guilty/According to court documents, Mr Dubigeon and Mr Herbaut were shareholders of Smile Dragon Asia Limited, a company they formed with other stakeholders in 2011 to operate mini marts in Phnom Penh.
The court said Mr Dubigeon was the chairman and co-owner of an existing company called Smile Retail Group LTD, which also operates mini marts.
Mr Dubigeon secretly formed Smile Dragon Asia Limited with Mr Herbaut in order to compete with Smile Retail Group.
The two formed the Smile Dragon Asia’s structure similarly as Smile Retail Group’s, attempting to cover up conflict of interest.
In May 2012, the men opened a chain of mini mart stores using the colours, uniforms, signage and logo similar to that owned by Smile Retail Group.
Major Seng Sokha, deputy chief of the investigations department with municipal immigration police, said that the two Frenchmen have fled the country.
“They are no longer in Cambodia,” he said.
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
They should’ve been smarter and called it ‘’Snail Minimart’’ or so...
I actually don't give a flying fuck, furthermore nice to meet you all here!
Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
"looks like the one on 163 near Wat Moha Montrei. Hopefully it's not one of the counterfeit shops as it's only been there a few months and is the best stocked mini mart in the area, "
The crimes were 'to 2015'
The crimes were 'to 2015'
Ditto.
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492064/f ... ringement/
21 May 2018, A Frenchman went on trial yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court for allegedly breaching the trademark of a company he had been working for in 2011.
Pich Vicheathor, municipal court judge, said yesterday that Thomas Herbaut, 45, former vice president of Smile Dragon Asia, was charged with trademark infringement.
According to the judge, the municipal court found the suspect and his partner, Bruno Dubigeon, 47, former president of Smile Dragon Asia, guilty and sentenced both men in absentia last year while both men were at large.
The court then issued warrants for their arrest. On Saturday, Mr Herbaut was arrested by police in Phnom Penh and requested a retrial.
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Khmer Times got the photo wrong. That's Bruno in the photo.... He was also a regular at GSM picking up 'girls', "the younger the better" he was said to say. Had an attractive Korean wife and kids too. The guy was always a sleaze in my opinion.
21 May 2018, A Frenchman went on trial yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court for allegedly breaching the trademark of a company he had been working for in 2011.
Pich Vicheathor, municipal court judge, said yesterday that Thomas Herbaut, 45, former vice president of Smile Dragon Asia, was charged with trademark infringement.
According to the judge, the municipal court found the suspect and his partner, Bruno Dubigeon, 47, former president of Smile Dragon Asia, guilty and sentenced both men in absentia last year while both men were at large.
The court then issued warrants for their arrest. On Saturday, Mr Herbaut was arrested by police in Phnom Penh and requested a retrial.
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Khmer Times got the photo wrong. That's Bruno in the photo.... He was also a regular at GSM picking up 'girls', "the younger the better" he was said to say. Had an attractive Korean wife and kids too. The guy was always a sleaze in my opinion.
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I actually don't give a flying fuck, furthermore nice to meet you all here!
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 2 Years for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
There' a Seven-9 here in Shv.Borum-Ex frm TOForum wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 6:54 amhttps://www.google.com/search?q=cambodi ... pXIV1dbHuM:
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Re: 2 Frenchman (BRUNO DUBIGEON & THOMAS HERBAUT) Jailed 1 Year for Running Illegal Smile Mart in Phnom Penh
there is the 6-11 on Sivatha in Siem Reap.
Back to this story though, reading through the accusations sounds exactly like a hundred ones before where the Barang comes in gets the local business partner, local business partner steals idea replicates identically, stiffs the barang, end result barang loses the cash and nothing found against the local.
in this case it sounds like the tables were turned and maybe the local got stiffed which cannot happen of course.....
Back to this story though, reading through the accusations sounds exactly like a hundred ones before where the Barang comes in gets the local business partner, local business partner steals idea replicates identically, stiffs the barang, end result barang loses the cash and nothing found against the local.
in this case it sounds like the tables were turned and maybe the local got stiffed which cannot happen of course.....
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