Starting from the bottom of the production and sale of counterfeit and inferior drugs "black workshop"

  The Ministry of Public Security announced five typical cases of crimes in the pharmaceutical field

  □ Our reporter Dong Fanchao

  At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to carry out a key special work to crack down on the crime of manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior drugs in accordance with the law, and launched a strong offensive against crimes such as manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior drugs.

The public security organs in various places acted swiftly and attacked, and focused on destroying a number of "black workshops" and "black dens" that produced and sold counterfeit and inferior medicines, and "black markets" that illegally traded medical insurance and fraudulently purchased medicines, effectively safeguarding the safety of medicines.

The Ministry of Public Security today made a centralized disclosure of the details of five relevant typical cases.

  False propaganda tricks middle-aged and elderly patients into "entering the pit"

  In April 2022, the public security organ of Yibin City, Sichuan Province, based on the clues reported by the masses, detected a case of producing and selling counterfeit medicines, arrested 24 suspects, destroyed 7 production and storage dens, and seized more than 600 kilograms of finished Chinese medicine pills and 250,000 on the spot. There are more than 6 million western medicine prescription drugs used for grains and raw materials.

According to the law, the drugs involved were found to be counterfeit drugs.

After investigation, the criminal suspect Chen Mou and others illegally bought anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving and hormone-based western medicine prescription drugs, mixed them with Chinese herbal medicines according to their homemade formulas and made self-named counterfeit medicines, and sold them through WeChat contact.

  This case is a typical case of illegally adding western medicine ingredients and pretending to be pure traditional Chinese medicine with ancestral secret recipes.

The counterfeit drugs involved in this case were processed and produced by illegally adding a variety of prescription drugs in black dens, with relatively random proportions, lack of quality control, and no guarantee of safety.

The suspect claimed that the drug was an "ancestral secret recipe pure traditional Chinese medicine" that could treat more than 10 diseases such as headache, dizziness, rheumatoid arthritis, and sciatica, and induced patients to buy and use it in large quantities.

In fact, due to the addition of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs to the counterfeit drug, the pain sensitivity of the patient decreases in a short time after taking it, resulting in the illusion of improvement. Sexual exhaustion, induce other complications.

  In the case of Zhang and others using counterfeit medicines to defraud middle-aged and elderly patients detected by Chongqing public security organs, the criminal suspect Zhang and others purchased a variety of approval numbers marked with "food certificate" and "food health" through the Internet, and at the same time The products claiming to be "indicating functions" were sold to middle-aged and elderly patients with special diseases by publishing false advertisements, pretending to be medical experts, etc., and the amount involved was more than 50 million yuan.

In this case, after a criminal gang headed by Zhang purchased counterfeit medicines, they advertised on local TV stations that the above-mentioned medicines could cure diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases, and recruited marketing personnel to form a "speaking team". Medical experts make false promises that "you can see a doctor free of charge in major top three hospitals in the country", etc., after defrauding the trust of middle-aged and elderly patients with special diseases, and selling them at prices ranging from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan.

Later, on the grounds that the patient's constitution needs to be detoxified, detoxified, repaired and consolidated, the patient is tricked into creating a "medical file" and charging a "file-building fee" to repeatedly commit fraud.

  The public security organs remind the majority of middle-aged and elderly patients not to be superstitious about the so-called medical experts on the Internet and all kinds of special medicines they promote.

  Crack down on the crime of illegally copying and selling famous traditional Chinese medicines

  In March 2022, the public security organs of Lianyungang City and Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, based on the clues reported by the masses, detected a case of manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs, destroyed 9 production and storage dens, destroyed 2 packaging factories and 12 illegal live broadcast rooms, and arrested the crime. There were 48 suspects, and more than 4,000 fake "Angong Niuhuang Pills" of more than 20 types were seized at the scene, involving more than 20 million yuan.

After investigation, the criminal suspect Bai Mou and others used cheap drugs and corn mixture to process and produce counterfeit "Angong Niuhuang Pills". External sales.

After inspection, the counterfeit drugs involved did not contain the necessary ingredients in genuine drugs, which belonged to the situation that "the ingredients contained in the drugs do not conform to the ingredients specified in the national drug standards" in the Drug Administration Law.

  This case is a typical case of the public security organ cracking down on the crime of illegally imitating and selling traditional Chinese medicines.

Angong Niuhuang Pill is a well-known emergency medicine among traditional Chinese medicines.

In recent years, some criminals have taken advantage of consumers' trust and love for "Angong Niuhuang Pills" to illegally manufacture and sell counterfeit medicines that do not contain essential Chinese herbal ingredients, and sell them as genuine products for profit.

Buying and using such fake medicines is easy to delay treatment.

  In the case of Zhang Moumou, Liu Moumou and others illegally producing and selling counterfeit botulinum toxin detected by Guangdong and Jiangsu public security organs, the criminal gang headed by the criminal suspect Zhang Moumou, Liu Moumou and others purchased freeze-dried powder, etc. Raw materials, organize the self-processing of so-called botulinum toxin, and use illegally printed well-known brand botulinum toxin labels, product manuals, outer packaging boxes and other packaging materials to make fake well-known brand botulinum toxin and other medical beauty products, through WeChat group and other ways to contact external sales.

  In this case, the main ingredients of the freeze-dried powder raw materials used by the criminal suspect are different from botulinum toxin in composition and function. They can only be applied to cosmetics applied on the skin surface. After injection, it is not only difficult to achieve the expected effect, but also seriously endangers life and health. .

  Dig deep into the organizers of illegal acquisitions and sales of medical insurance drugs

  In March 2022, the public security organs of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, based on clues found in their work, detected a case of covering up and concealing the proceeds of crime, arresting 11 criminal suspects, destroying 7 warehouse dens, and seizing dozens of medical insurance drugs totaling 35,000 on the spot. surplus box.

After investigation, the suspects Su Mou, Yu Moumou and others have been purchasing common chronic disease medical insurance drugs purchased through medical insurance fraud in major hospitals and surrounding areas in Nanchang for a long time. A certain group purchased a large number of related drugs and then classified and assembled them for sale. The value involved in the case was nearly 200 million yuan.

  This case is a typical case of the public security organ applying the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases Endangering Drug Safety to crack down on crimes involving medical insurance drugs.

Due to the large profit margin between the purchase price and the resale price of the medicines recovered by medical insurance, some criminals, driven by their interests, set up stalls around the hospital to purchase, collect, store, and swipe the medical insurance card on their behalf to directly defraud them from the hospital. Collusion with internal staff to obtain medical insurance and illegal profit after resale.

  In this case, in accordance with Article 13 of the Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases Endangering Drug Safety, the public security organs illegally purchase and sell drugs that they know are purchased through fraudulent use of medical insurance, and the amount is more than RMB 50,000. According to the provisions of Article 312 of the Criminal Law, "conviction and punishment for concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime" regulations require that we dig deep into the organizers behind the illegal purchase and sale of medical insurance drugs, collect and fix relevant evidence in a timely and comprehensive manner, severely punish crimes in accordance with the law, and resolutely kill them. Broken hands reaching out to the health insurance fund.

  Beijing, July 11th, our newspaper