authorities in Spain have taken down a criminal operation involved in the diversion and possible counterfeiting of medicines that were acquired cheaply in Spain and sold on to pharmacies Denmark, the UK and Belgium with a three- to four-fold mark-up
The authorities in Spain have taken down a criminal operation involved in the diversion and possible counterfeiting of medicines that were acquired cheaply in Spain and sold on to pharmacies Denmark, the UK and Belgium with a three- to four-fold mark-up, according to a report in El Pais. The Spanish pharmacies received a commission of around 10 per cent for their part in the trade, says the newspaper, which notes the two people have been arrested and 13 others indicted on a number of charges including money laundering. The gang operated out of a warehouse in Valencia, where 12,000 packs of medicines including drugs for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and childhood leukaemia and €163,000 in cash were discovered by the authorities. A spokesman for the Spanish police said the medicines found were considered counterfeit because their origin and the conditions in which they were stored are unknown.
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