Fake Drugs in Kenya Reduced ‘Significantly’

Pharmacists in the African nation of Kenya say that their nation struggles with counterfeit drugs because of the large number of medications that are registered in the country. There are more than 11,000 pharmaceutical products registered in Kenya, which is one of the highest totals in Africa, according to the Daily Nation. Kenyan pharmacists point…

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Third Theft of Pharmaceuticals at New Jersey Pharmacy Prompts Reward Offer

Rewards have been offered in connection to three pharmaceutical thefts at the same New Jersey pharmacy. Police believe that the three thefts of pharmaceuticals at the CVS on White Horse Pike in Oaklyn, New Jersey, were all perpetrated by the same suspect, according to the Retrospect newspaper. The pharmaceutical thefts occurred on July 2, July…

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Photographer’s Project Documents Fake Drug Smuggling at JFK Airport

A photographer’s project documenting what type of illicit goods come into the U.S. through New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport revealed smuggled counterfeit products including fake drugs. Taryn Simon spent five days and five nights in 2009 at one of JFK’s busiest terminals, reports CNN. There she not only encountered many knock-off handbags and…

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Vietnamese Student Invents Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

A Vietnamese student recently invented a software program designed to identify phony products, including counterfeit drugs. Nguyen Kim Hoang Nhu is a student at Ho Chi Minh City National University where one of her goals is to create a program to help people avoid coming in contact with fake products, according to Viet Nam News.…

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Mansion of Man Who Ran Illegal Online Pharmacies Up for Auction

The Texas mansion of a man convicted of running a number of illegal online pharmacies is currently up for auction. The bidding for the 22,000 square-foot mansion that used to be owned by Rakesh Saran will start at $1.5 million, according to the Dallas Morning News. The four-story house was seized in 2005 following the…

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Alleged Wisconsin Drug Counterfeiter Previously Faced Drug Charges

The alleged co-conspirator to a prominent Wisconsin pharmacist accused of selling counterfeit drugs had previously been arrested and charged for running a sham pharmacy in Texas.   Balbir Bhogal was recently arrested, along with renowned Madison, Wisonsin, pharmacist Marla Ahlgrimm, for allegedly importing and selling millions of tablets of phony erectile dysfunction medication and other…

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Google Takes Rogue Pharmacies to Court

Today Google filed a civil lawsuit against a number of illegal online pharmacies, claiming that the businesses violated the search engine's advertisement policy. Michael Zwibelman, Google's Litigation Counsel, wrote in a post on the company's blog that it has been battling these illegal online pharmacies for years in an effort to keep advertisements promoting illegal…

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Uganda Sets Up Police Desks to Fight Counterfeit Drugs

Police officials in the landlocked African Nation of Uganda are setting up anti-narcotics desks at all of the police stations around the country in an effort to fight the problem of counterfeit drugs. Inspector general of Police Kale Kayihura told the New Vision that the desks are being set up to combat the rising number…

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Two Nigerians Accused of Pharmaceutical Theft

Two Nigerians have been charged with the theft of pharmaceuticals valued at $18.5 million Nigerian from a pharmacy in Lagos. Uchenna Ogodo worked as a pharmacy attendant for ICEE Pharmaceutical Limited, according to Next, an African news source. Prosecutor Innocent Effiong alleged before the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court that he and his accomplice, 35-year-old Patrick…

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