Police in southern China raid labs churning out fake Viagra and antibiotics
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 29 September, 2015, 7:38pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 29 September, 2015, 7:40pm
Laura Zhou
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Some of the products seized during the raids in suburban Guangzhou. Photo: People.com.cn
More than 1.5 million counterfeit sex drugs and thousands of fake antibiotics have been seized in a raid on a gang in southern China.
Police in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, detained 17 suspects on charges of manufacturing and selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
More than 30 police raided two illegal drug labs in a village in Baiyun district last month, seizing about 530,000 sex drug tablets, 2.6 million semi-finished capsules, 2,800 tablets of Amoxicillin, as well as starch and machinery after police were tipped off, news portal People.com.cn reports.
Evidence from those raids led police to three other plants run by the same gang in two small towns in the district.
Local police working with local drug regulators seized about 1 million tablets of fake sex drugs as well as 400,000 semi-finished capsules on Monday.
Suspects told police that they had pressed starch into tablets to produce fake antibiotics, while the fake sex drugs were a mix of starch and sildenafil, or Viagra.
Police estimated that the ring had manufactured more than 100 million pills of fake drugs since last May last year that were sold in Beijing, Anhui and abroad.
The investigation continues.
Hundreds of thousands of fake Viagra and antibiotics were made under conditions such as production facility. Photo: People.com.cn
