Gang jailed for manufacturing, selling fake medicine to Chinese hospitals
Gang based in Shenzhen also used Hong Kong-based website to sell drugs unlicensed in mainland China, newspaper reports
Eight members of a criminal gang in Shenzhen in southern China have been jailed for selling unauthorised foreign medicines and for manufacturing fake drugs, according to a newspaper report.
The gang sold some of the medicines with a rebate to doctors in public hospitals in China in return for them recommending the treatments to their patients, the Economic Information Daily said. Patients would then buy the drugs online.
The gang set up two companies in Hong Kong and mainland China four years ago, and set up a website to advertise their products.
They first concentrated on selling cancer treatment drugs made mostly in Singapore and India, which were sent to the website’s address in Hong Kong, a gang member was quoted as saying.
Gang members visited many hospitals in China, including in the Guangxi region, plus Henan and Hainan provinces, to promote the drugs.
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The gang sold over 30 kinds of foreign medicines between September 2014 to March 2016 without a licence at inflated prices.