Posts Tagged ‘CIS’
Pakistani Head of Counterfeit Drug Importer Extradited and Indicted in U.S. Court
Junaid Qadir of Karachi, Pakistan, was originally indicted in 2012. A superseding indictment was obtained June 25, 2015. He was arrested last spring after he traveled from Pakistan to Germany. Qadir fought extradition, but lost and appeared in federal court on Jan. 25, 2016. Qadir and his brother, Shehzad, who is not in custody, are…
[...]Most counterfeit medicines come to Russia from India, UK – Roszdravnadzo
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) – According to the Russian Federal Service on Surveillance in Healthcare and Social Development (Roszdravnadzor), the majority of counterfeit medicine comes to the Russian market from India and the UK. "Roszdravnadzor has made a rating of domestic and foreign producers by the relative volume of counterfeit products, using an analysis of…
[...]94% of counterfeit drugs come from abroad – official
MOSCOW. Feb 14 (Interfax) – About 60 brands of counterfeit medicines were seized in Russian pharmacies last year, Valentina Kosenko from the Federal Health Care and Social Development Supervisory Service told a Thursday press conference in Moscow. 14 February 2008 Read the full story at interfax-news.com.
[...]State Duma Targets Counterfeit Drugs
The State Duma will examine plans to stiffen penalties for manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit pharmaceuticals Friday, one of the sponsors of the proposed bill said Thursday. "It will be the first reading of a bill to create a new statute in the legal code covering the manufacture, intent to supply, supply, storage, transportation and…
[...]Gubernskie Apteki finds its way to prevent sale of counterfeit medicines
Gubernskie Apteki, a state-owned pharmaceutical network, has worked out a multi-level system to rule out the sale of counterfeit medicines in the company's drugstores, Gubernskie Apteki Director General Vadim Yudin announced. According to Yudin, the problem of counterfeit medicines is very acute for drugstores all over Russia. Official reports show that Russia is world's second…
[...]Russia listed second in world’s rating of counterfeit medicines distribution
Russia has been listed second in the world's rating of counterfeit medicines distribution. More than 26,300 facts of storage and sale of low-quality medicines, about 2,000 facts of counterfeit medicines sale, and 1,500 facts of medicines sale with keeping time expired were revealed as part of the decade action "Pharmacologist", Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Tchekalin…
[...]Lavrov Meets With U.S. Senators; a Tenth of Drugs Sold in Russia is Counterfeit – Rosnadzor
MOSCOW. Feb 2 (Interfax) – According to the Federal Service for Health Care and Social Development Supervision (Rosnadzor), counterfeit drugs account for around 0.1% of the total amount of medicines sold in Russia. "We have detected around 0.1% of counterfeit in the total amount of drugs sold. I must say that counterfeit medicines are absolutely…
[...]Russian probe finds fake drug market big
MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (UPI) — Sales of counterfeit drugs in Russia could be as high as $300 million annually, an investigation by the country's Interior Ministry showed. Police found the number of violations found during the 10-day Operation Pharmacologist exceeded by 12 times the number of violations reported during 2005, the Itar-Tass news agency said.…
[...]Bryntsalov Is Let Off With a Fine
A Moscow court ruled late Wednesday that pharmaceuticals firm Bryntsalov-A must pay a 40,000 ruble ($1,500) fine for improper storage of drugs at its facilities, among other violations. The decision was widely viewed as a slap on the wrist for a company that has been accused by Western drug makers of producing counterfeit drugs. The…
[...]Counterfeit medicines decline to 3%-4% of market – Zurabov
MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) – The number of counterfeit drugs has "significantly" decreased, and now amounts to 3-4% of the Russian drug market, Russian Health and Social Protection Minister Mikhail Zurabov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. 23 October 2006 Read the full story at interfax.ru.
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