Fake Viagra falls limp: 19 arrested for allegedly making, selling nearly a million counterfeit anti-impotence pills in northern China

Nineteen people have been arrested by the police in northern China for allegedly making or selling nearly a million fake Viagra pills, according to a newspaper report.

The suspects were caught after customers at 10 adult stores in Nanjing in Jiangsu province complained about the anti-impotence pills they had bought, the Modern Express reported. The pills turned out to be fakes.

Police said the stores got the counterfeit pills from an online shop based in Shaanxi province. The owner said he bought the pills from a village in Henan province.

The cost of making each pill was less than 1 yuan (HK$1.20), but they were sold for as much as 80 yuan, the newspaper said detained villagers had told police.

The arrests were made in Shaanxi and Henan.

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