China Increases Penalty for Drug Fakers
The People’s Republic of China has removed a maximum sentencing requirement of three years imprisonment for convicted medicine counterfeiters.
The change in Article 141 of the Criminal Law has removed the upper limit for jail terms. Additionally, the new law removes the test of demonstrable harm, in other words, the counterfeiters can be prosecuted for the creation and selling of fake medications whether or not there is evidence that the medications caused bodily harm to the users, reports Securing Pharma.
Lastly, the assignation of fines has been increased from no greater than two times the earnings from sales, allowing courts greater reign in sentencing.