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Illegal vaccine sale gang busted, 18 suspects held
By Cai Wenjun |
September 14, 2012, Friday
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POLICE in east China's Shandong Province announced they have busted a gang involved in the illegal sales of vaccines across the nation. Illegal products netted by police included vaccines for hepatitis B, flu, chicken pox and rabies valued at 120 million yuan (US$18.96 million).
Police have nabbed 18 suspects and shut down eight illegal vaccine sales spots, seizing 42,494 vaccines.
The well-organized criminal ring had a complete sales network involving many regions of China but it was police in Weifang, Shandong, who cracked the case after being tipped off, according to yesterday's Qilu Evening News.
Weifang police received an anonymous letter on May 23, claiming that a drugstore on the city's Xiangyang Road was selling expired medicines and indulging in the vaccine sale business without a license.
The letter clearly mentioned the place where the illegal vaccines were stored, how the vaccines were transported outside and how the money was paid. Police said the tipster may have been working at the store.
Plain-clothes policemen watched the store and followed its owner and staff for eight days, collecting evidence about how the illegal vaccines arrived and how they were sold.
Nine suspects were caught on May 31 by Weifang police, who found a large number of vaccines at the store.
The drugstore owner, surnamed Jiang, a medical school student, opened the store in 2005 and controlled the network in Shandong.
He got vaccines from the provinces of Henan, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Anhui as well as Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and sold them in Tianjin Municipality, Anhui Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia.
When police raided Jiang's store, they only found records of the vaccine business from November 2011 until this May, during which he had done deals worth more than 2.3 million yuan. He had also destroyed all previous records.
Police found that Jiang had been in the illegal vaccine business since 2005.
According to his work summary, Jiang was involved in illegal sales worth more than 50 million yuan during the seven years, police said.
Police have nabbed 18 suspects and shut down eight illegal vaccine sales spots, seizing 42,494 vaccines.
The well-organized criminal ring had a complete sales network involving many regions of China but it was police in Weifang, Shandong, who cracked the case after being tipped off, according to yesterday's Qilu Evening News.
Weifang police received an anonymous letter on May 23, claiming that a drugstore on the city's Xiangyang Road was selling expired medicines and indulging in the vaccine sale business without a license.
The letter clearly mentioned the place where the illegal vaccines were stored, how the vaccines were transported outside and how the money was paid. Police said the tipster may have been working at the store.
Plain-clothes policemen watched the store and followed its owner and staff for eight days, collecting evidence about how the illegal vaccines arrived and how they were sold.
Nine suspects were caught on May 31 by Weifang police, who found a large number of vaccines at the store.
The drugstore owner, surnamed Jiang, a medical school student, opened the store in 2005 and controlled the network in Shandong.
He got vaccines from the provinces of Henan, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Anhui as well as Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and sold them in Tianjin Municipality, Anhui Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia.
When police raided Jiang's store, they only found records of the vaccine business from November 2011 until this May, during which he had done deals worth more than 2.3 million yuan. He had also destroyed all previous records.
Police found that Jiang had been in the illegal vaccine business since 2005.
According to his work summary, Jiang was involved in illegal sales worth more than 50 million yuan during the seven years, police said.
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