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$82,000 profit from illicit cough mixture business
By Khushwant Singh
A MYANMAR national would order thousands of litres of cough syrup from an agent here, repack it in 90ml or 60ml bottles and sell it in Geylang for $15 or $10 for each bottle If Tin Ko Oo, 40, had sold all 5,080 litres that he had with him, the profit would be more than $82,000, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong told a district court on Tuesday.
Tin was operating illicitly and on Tuesday he pleaded guilty to having six types of medicinal ingredients classified under the Poisons Act without a licence. These poisons were found in the cough mixture and in the 2,000 pills found in a storage area in Boon Keng Road and another in Kallang Way in January this year.
Tin, who is a chemistry graduate, will be sentenced on Dec 23. He could be fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed up to two years on each of the six charges.The court heard that the foreigner, who is here on a Special Pass, had been selling the cough mixture since 2008 and earning about $5,000 a month.
His company, Golden Champion International is located in Peninsula Plaza in North Bridge Road but the cough mixture would be sold by Denis Ko Weiqiang at Lorong 9 Geylang. Investigations revealed that Tin would pay Ko $60 a day.
Asking for a stiff sentence, DPP Wong pointed out that Tin should be dealt with more severely than his runner Ko, who was jailed four months in March.
Tin Ko Oo, 40, was jailed nine months on Thursday by a district court. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
A MYANMAR national, who ordered canisters of cough syrup from an agent here and repacked it for sale in Geylang, had nearly 10,000l of it without a licence.
Tin Ko Oo, 40, was jailed nine months on Thursday by a district court. A Health Sciences Authority spokesman confirmed this was the largest seizure with an estimated street value of $2 million.
The businessman, who is a chemistry graduate, had pleaded guilty on Dec 14 to having six types of medicinal ingredients classified under the Poisons Act, without a licence.
Five of these ingredients, including codeine, were in the cough mixture, while diazepam was in 2,000 pills found in storage areas in Boon Keng Road and Kallang Way in January.
The court heard that Tin had also mixed two different cough mixtures together and District Judge Liew Thiam Leng noted that this was a potential health hazard that called for a heavier sentence.
The court had earlier heard that he began selling the cough mixture from 2008, earning about $5,000 a month, using a Singaporean runner, Denis Ko Weiqiang, 48, to sell 60ml and 90ml bottle each at $10 and $15 respectively.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong had asked the court to impose a heavier sentence than the four-month jail term handed down to Ko in March this year. Tin could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to two years on each of the six charges. [email protected]
