Hai Sen's family " flees" from the commercial floor
Ninh Binh Provincial Police arrested Le Van Hai (born in 1995, residing in Van Phu Commune, Nho Quan District) - owner of the TikTok channel "Gia gia Hai Sen" with 2.6 million followers, to investigate goods trading activities on social networks.
Le Van Hai is known as the founder of the TikTok channel "Gia dinh Hai Sen" and the Vlog "Hai Sen Vlog" on Facebook. These platforms regularly post promotional videos, advertising products such as deodorant spray, cleanser, hair dressing, delicious syrup... All goods are registered and announced by Hai Be Company Limited (located in Thanh Tay village, Van Phu commune, Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh province).
Starting with clips staging fun situations in daily life, Le Van Hai (also known as Hai Sen) quickly developed a series of social networking sites called "Hai Sen Family". Thanks to its controversial script creation, this channel attracts millions of followers and is used as an online sales channel to bring in large revenue. Taking advantage of that attraction, Hai started to integrate advertisements for products such as delicious Hai Be syrup, Hai Be feminine ginseng, Hai Sen deodorant spray...
Le Van Hai admits to being the Director of Hai Be Company Limited, introducing a company specializing in the production of health care products extracted from nature. However, in reality, this company has only been in operation for about two years and all products are hired by other processing units to do business online.
On the website https://haibe.vn/, many products have the phrase "health protection food" removed, which is not in accordance with the content that has been licensed for advertising. The promotional clips also do not clearly state the mandatory warning: "This food is not a medicine and does not have the effect of replacing medicine". Notably, some cosmetic products such as deodorant spray and dreamy spray are introduced as special drugs, which can easily cause serious misunderstandings for consumers.
On May 21, the Ministry of Health issued Decision 1703/QD-BYT on " Plan to implement the peak month of combating smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights" from May 15 to May 15, 2025.
The Ministry requires the entire industry to strengthen inspection and control of the production and trading of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, functional foods, and medical equipment; promptly detect and strictly handle acts of smuggling, counterfeiting, and smuggling, protect the rights of people and businesses.
In early June 2025, when there was information about Hai Sen's family's products that were suspected of not being of good quality, Dr. Ta Manh Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Drug Administration (Ministry of Health) said: The Department has grasped the information and will coordinate with the authorities to inspect.
Taking advantage of social networks to advertise despite violations
Hai Be Company Limited was once announced by HTV as a national prestigious quality brand. Some newspapers have also published articles about Hai Sen's family such as Hai Sen - The key to a healthy and youthful life.
At the end of May 2025, Hai Sen arrow deodorification serum was one of the products on the list of cosmetics forged using the technology of buying and selling pots in Bac Giang that were destroyed by the authorities.
At that time, Le Van Hai proactively launched a website to clarify the product serum to deodorize Hai Sen armpits that the authorities arrested in Bac Giang had nothing to do with Hai Sen's family. Hai also issued a series of documents proving his products.
Because it proves that the products sold are guaranteed, Hai Sen's products are still being advertised widely on the internet with "explosive" advertisements, easily causing consumers to misunderstand that they are drugs to treat diseases. Hai Sen alopecia nut deodoriater is advertised as reducing the acting of mucus and sweat in the alopecia, limiting the secretion of oil to the outside. Therefore, the problem of pillowcase stinking also decreases. Hai Sen aloe vera deodorantant Serum is absolutely deodorific since first use. The product is instructed to be used 2 days/time. Advertising products as treatment for diseases.
Hai Sen tube spraying products are advertised to support the treatment of middle ear inflammation, tube inflammation, rhinitis, sore throat...
According to the provisions of Article 3 of Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT, Article 8 of the 2012 Advertising Law and Decree 181/2013/ND-CP, cosmetics are not advertised as treatment drugs for diseases. However, the excessive commitments about the "specialty" and "absolute effectiveness" of serum Hai Sen have far exceeded the limits of a common deodorant product, violating the law on advertising.
However, in early June 2025, after many Tiktokers were inspected and found to be violating by the authorities, Hai Sen's social platforms were also "frozen". On the trading floors, they are constantly reporting out of stock. Even Tiktok deleted all sales clips. As of June 17, the website https://haibe.vn/ cannot be accessed. Notably, this website has not been updated on the E-commerce Management System of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, violating regulations on online business.
