Cctv newsRecently, Chongqing police cracked a large counterfeit drug case involving more than 10 million yuan. The police investigation found that a miraculous medicine, which claims to be made up of dozens of traditional Chinese medicines and can cure all kinds of diseases, is sold in the rural market of Chongqing. This so-called panacea can not only cure diseases, but also bring multiple injuries to patients after long-term use.
Ms. He from Pengshui County, Chongqing added a teacher who claimed to be surnamed Zhou through WeChat. This teacher Zhou recommended an ancestral Chinese medicine called "Fengshi Tougu Dan". Teacher Zhou vowed to assure Ms. He that as long as she took this medicine, she could cure any illness.
Ms. He bought nearly 1,000 yuan of "Fengshi Tougu Dan" for her grandmother with rheumatism. However, not long after receiving the goods, Ms. He found the problem. The medicine was not only poorly packaged, but also had unsatisfactory curative effect.
Ms. He suspected that the medicine was fake, and then she went to report it. After receiving the report, Pengshui County Food and Drug Administration Branch, together with the county public security bureau, sent these "Fengshi Tougu Dan" to the relevant departments for testing. After being identified by Chongqing Food and Drug Administration, this product was counterfeit.
The police investigation found that the drug was not only sold in Pengshui County, but also sold everywhere in the surrounding rural markets. The Anti-Counterfeiting Corps of Chongqing Public Security Bureau immediately set up a task force to explore and arrange, and gradually sorted out a criminal network headed by Liu and Xu, which produced and sold counterfeit drugs in Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Chongqing and other provinces and cities. Soon, the police were divided into four roads to arrest Liu, Xu Moumou and others.
After arresting four major suspects, including Liu and Xu, the police seized three production dens and more than 10 sets of production equipment, and seized more than 10,000 counterfeit medicines "Fengshi Tougu Dan" and more than 100 kilograms of raw materials.
To the police’s surprise, the producers of these counterfeit drugs, Liu and Xu, are a rural couple with only primary school education in Dafang County, Guizhou Province, and their families have no medical experience, not to mention the so-called Chinese medicine family. The dens that produce fake drugs are also these messy houses. It is in this kind of production dens that Liu and Xu and his wife made their own recipes and made fake drugs Fengshi Tougu Dan, which were sold to five surrounding provinces and cities.
"Ancestral secret recipe" is actually patched up by counterfeiters online.
During the process of handling the case, some people reported to the police handling the case that these fake drugs seem to be really effective. Some patients have relieved their pain symptoms when they first took these drugs. Are these "Fengshi Tougu Dan" really effective?
When Liu and Xu promoted their fake medicines, they all used the banner of "Xu Shi’s secret recipe", claiming that their "Fengshi Tougu Dan" was made up of dozens of precious Chinese herbal medicines. The police investigation found that the so-called "Xu Shi’s secret recipe" formula was completely patched together by Liu and Xu through online search.
Counterfeiters add prescription drugs to counterfeit drugs.
A patchwork formula is a shoddy fake medicine, but some patients report that they have a certain effect after taking these drugs, especially in the first few days of taking them. Then what is the reason? The police sent these drugs to the drug supervision department for identification and found that the reason was that a large number of prescription drugs with analgesic and anti-inflammatory functions were added to the drugs.
In these formulas, Liu and Xu have not only added prescription drugs with analgesic and anti-inflammatory functions, but also added hormones, which will not only make patients dependent, but also bring multiple injuries to patients with rheumatism.
Selling the rural market makes a profit of over one million a year.
According to the producers of counterfeit drugs, Liu and Xu, the main sales market of counterfeit drugs produced by themselves is in rural areas. These simply packaged drugs sell very well after playing the banner of ancestral secret recipes.
The police investigation found that Liu and his wife did not sell these drugs directly to the countryside, but first sold these counterfeit drugs to the next homes in Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Chongqing and other provinces and cities at low prices through logistics express delivery and WeChat collection, and then these next homes increased their prices layer by layer, and finally sold them in rural markets by setting up stalls.
These counterfeit drugs cost more than 20 cents a pill from the factory, and the price of each pill has soared tenfold when they reach the patients. Because the villagers living in remote villages lack the common sense of drug use, even if they are skeptical about this fake medicine with the secret recipe of their ancestors, most of them will not judge whether it is true or false through formal channels, but buy medicine by personal feelings.
Due to the addition of analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs and hormones to counterfeit drugs, some patients mistakenly think that these counterfeit drugs have real effects, and then through the mode of word of mouth, more relatives and friends come to buy these counterfeit drugs. It is precisely because of this deception that Liu and his wife earned a lot of illegal benefits in just one year.
Chongqing police said that they will further carry out clue verification, case investigation and centralized network collection in response to the crime of producing and selling counterfeit drugs.
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