The Chinese police has busted four major pirated drug cases
since a nationwide crackdown was launched two years ago, the
Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Tuesday.
-- The police detained 19 suspects in Shanghai, Jiangsu,
Guangdong and Liaoning for allegedly produce fake "Tamiflu", a
widely-used bird flu drug, and sell them to the United States via
the Internet, in coordinated raids on May 24-25. This was done
thanks to intelligence from U.S. authorities.
-- In another crackdown codenamed "Jupiter Action", Chinese
police, with the help of the International Criminal Police
Organization (Interpol), busted a gang that manufactured and
distributed fake anti-malaria drug in Guangxi, Guangdong and Yunnan
and Shandong.
-- Guangdong police, in cooperation with the U.S. law agencies,
busted a gang making and selling counterfeit "Viagra", an
anti-impotence drug developed by the U.S.-based Pfizer
Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2006, seizing about a ton of
fake drugs, two production lines and large quantities of raw
materials.
-- The police in east Zhejiang on April 20, 2006 seized a man
surnamed Huang who planned to flee overseas after selling 18,000
granules of fake drugs worth more than 190,000 yuan (US$25,000 ) to
24 people in 12 countries including the United States and the
Netherlands.
(Xinhua News Agency July 25, 2007)