Three held over illegal Viagra trade

Three men were arrested and 18 bottles of Viagra tablets seized when police raided a Mongkok pharmacy yesterday.

The raid was staged after an undercover officer went into a pharmacy in Shanghai Street and bought a Viagra tablet for $400.

Police and two Department of Health pharmacists also seized 600 bottles of cough medicine which contained a restricted poison.

'This is the first time that Viagra tablets have surfaced in Hong Kong,' Detective Chief Inspector Chan Wah-shing, who led the raid, said.

A total of 495 Viagra tablets valued at $198,000 were seized.

Police found one empty bottle and one half-empty bottle of Viagra, indicating that 45 of the tablets had been sold earlier.