840,000 pills seized in fake Viagra bust
By Lu Feiran |
November 9, 2011, Wednesday
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A COUNTERFEIT drug ring has been busted and 840,000 pills worth 30 million yuan (US$4.7 million) confiscated, officials said yesterday.
Shanghai Food and Drug Administration linked up with police to smash the operation. The ring was found to be making 66 types of fake drugs, mostly prescribed pills such as Viagra and Xilishi.
Fake drugs were seized in Shanghai, Hebei and Guangdong, FDA officials said yesterday.
In the city, officials found drugs being manufactured in hideouts in several districts, including Baoshan, Zhabei and Xuhui.
A local court later sentenced eight men to jail terms ranging from one year to two years and 10 months and fined them 40,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan.
Officials said they and police had been tracking the gang for a considerable time and had amassed a large amount of evidence of fake drug production and sales.
The eight suspects confessed that the fake pills were made from plant extracts and chemicals but were labeled as 66 different products - mostly sexual performance drugs.
The gang members were migrant people from Fujian, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Guangdong.
Staying in Shanghai, they sold most of the fake drugs to out-the-town villages through opening small health food stores or via the Internet, said the FDA.
They also published sales information on some e-commerce platforms.
Since August last year, the suspects had registered three websites for selling the fake drugs, said the FDA.
Shanghai Food and Drug Administration linked up with police to smash the operation. The ring was found to be making 66 types of fake drugs, mostly prescribed pills such as Viagra and Xilishi.
Fake drugs were seized in Shanghai, Hebei and Guangdong, FDA officials said yesterday.
In the city, officials found drugs being manufactured in hideouts in several districts, including Baoshan, Zhabei and Xuhui.
A local court later sentenced eight men to jail terms ranging from one year to two years and 10 months and fined them 40,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan.
Officials said they and police had been tracking the gang for a considerable time and had amassed a large amount of evidence of fake drug production and sales.
The eight suspects confessed that the fake pills were made from plant extracts and chemicals but were labeled as 66 different products - mostly sexual performance drugs.
The gang members were migrant people from Fujian, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Guangdong.
Staying in Shanghai, they sold most of the fake drugs to out-the-town villages through opening small health food stores or via the Internet, said the FDA.
They also published sales information on some e-commerce platforms.
Since August last year, the suspects had registered three websites for selling the fake drugs, said the FDA.
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