Two men arrested with fake medicine
Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested two men with fake medicine from the city's Uttara on Sunday. However, the medicine factories are yet to be busted.
The arrestees Mizanur Rahman alias Rubel, 30, and Yusuf Zaman, 35, at a press conference at DB headquarters yesterday, admitted their crimes.
DB officials said the arrestees are involved with a gang producing, packing and selling fake medicine at pharmacies in Uttara and adjacent areas.
The medicine bottles labelled “One To Nine”, “Nervicon” and “Soya Protein” claimed to be dietary supplements and were marked as products from the US.
At the press conference, Additional Deputy Commissioner (DB-South) Molla Nazrul Islam said Rubel distributed the medicine and was caught while packing them at his Sector 9 house in Uttara around 4:30pm.
For the past six months, a man named Kamal used to provide the coloured tablets which Rubel packed in plastic bottles, bought from Old Dhaka, and stuck the labels, which came from printing presses in Nilkhet, said Rubel.
Yusuf, owning a pharmacy at Sector 7, said they wanted to make more profit and so bought each bottle at Tk 140 to sell at around Tk 240 to Tk 280.
“Some doctors prescribe the medicine as they get a share of the profit and sometimes we pursue patients to purchase those,” he said, adding that most pharmacies in Uttara sell these fake medicines.
Nazrul said they would do a chemical test to know the medicine's ingredients, unearth the factories involved and investigate whether any doctor is involved with the gang.
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