China News Service, July 11th. According to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, public security organs across the country have severely cracked down on criminal activities in the field of manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior drugs, and have made every effort to protect the lives and health of the people and the safety of medication.
The Ministry of Public Security announced 5 typical cases on the 11th to effectively deter illegal and criminal activities, improve the prevention awareness and resilience of the general public, and actively create a good atmosphere for the whole society to jointly maintain drug safety.
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 quickly and attacked with heavy blows, widening the sources of clues, vigorously solving cases, strengthening departmental cooperation, and advancing special work in depth, and focused on destroying a number of "black workshops", "black dens", illegal drug production and sales of counterfeit and inferior drugs. The "black market" of fraudulently purchased drugs through medical insurance has successfully cracked a number of major cases such as the case of Chen and others in Yibin, Sichuan producing and selling counterfeit drugs, and the case of Zhang, Dazu, Chongqing, and others using counterfeit drugs to defraud middle-aged and elderly patients, and achieved positive results. Strong maintenance of drug safety.
From January to May this year, public security organs across the country detected more than 1,000 drug-related crimes, including the manufacture and sale of counterfeit and inferior drugs, and arrested more than 1,600 criminal suspects.
The person in charge of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that the public security organs will maintain a high-pressure situation of cracking down on criminal activities in the field of pharmaceuticals such as the production and sale of counterfeit and inferior drugs, continue to increase the crackdown, closely cooperate with departments, and actively cooperate to improve the pharmaceutical field. Legislate, strengthen law enforcement and judicial work, and earnestly safeguard drug safety and people's lives and health.
5 typical cases of combating drug crimes:
1. Sichuan public security organs detected the case of Chen and others making and selling counterfeit medicines
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 criminal suspects, destroyed 7 production and storage dens, and seized more than 600 kilograms of 250,000 finished Chinese medicine pills 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.
The public security organs remind the majority of patients not to believe in false propaganda such as so-called "pure traditional Chinese medicine" and "ancestral secret recipes", and should purchase medicines through formal channels to ensure drug safety.
2. Guangdong and Jiangsu public security organs detected cases of Zhang Moumou, Liu Moumou and others illegally producing and selling counterfeit botulinum toxin
In February 2022, the public security organs of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province and Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province jointly detected a case of illegal production and sale of counterfeit botulinum toxin based on clues found in their work, arrested 71 suspects, and seized more than 5,000 counterfeit botulinum toxin on the spot. There are more than 60,000 boxes and semi-finished products, and the amount involved is more than 50 million yuan.
After investigation, the criminal gang headed by the criminal suspects Zhang Moumou, Liu Moumou and others purchased raw materials such as freeze-dried powder, organized personnel to process the so-called botulinum toxin by themselves, and used illegally printed labels and product instructions of well-known brands of botulinum toxin. After being packaged with packaging materials such as botulinum toxin and other packaging materials, fake well-known brands of botulinum toxin and other medical beauty products are made, and they are sold through WeChat groups and other methods.
This case is a typical case of the public security organs strengthening regional cooperation and cracking down on the crime of manufacturing and selling fake botulinum toxin and other medical and aesthetic products.
The public security organs in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and Yancheng, Jiangsu earnestly researched and judged, conducted in-depth investigations, and traced the source.
In February of this year, the public security organs of the two places launched a joint network collection operation, destroying 21 dens involved in the case, and destroying the criminal network in one fell swoop.
In this case, the main ingredients of the freeze-dried powder used by the suspect are different from those of botulinum toxin in ingredients and functions, and can only be applied to cosmetics applied on the skin surface.
At present, illegal and criminal activities such as making and selling fakes in the field of medical beauty are on the rise. The public security organs will give full play to their functional advantages, highlight the "all links, all elements, and the whole chain" to crack down, and actively respond to the general people with excellent professional investigation capabilities and levels. The masses have new expectations and new requirements for drug safety.
3. Chongqing public security organs detected the case of Zhang and others using counterfeit drugs to defraud middle-aged and elderly patients
In March 2022, the public security organ of Dazu District, Chongqing City, based on the clues reported by the masses, detected a fraud case involving the sale of counterfeit drugs, arrested 38 criminal suspects, destroyed 2 dens involved in the case, and seized 100 boxes of drugs, as well as several mobile phones and computers. .
After investigation, the criminal suspect Zhang Mou and others purchased a variety of products with approval numbers such as "food certificate" and "food health" through the Internet, and claimed "indication function" at the same time. Fraud was carried out by way of sales to middle-aged and elderly patients with special diseases, and the amount involved was more than 50 million yuan.
After inspection, the products involved fall under the provisions of the "Drug Administration Law" that "use non-drugs or other drugs to pretend to be such drugs", and the drug regulatory department has determined them to be counterfeit drugs in accordance with the law.
This case is a typical case of using counterfeit medicine to defraud middle-aged and elderly patients.
In this case, after the criminal gang headed by the criminal suspect Zhang purchased counterfeit medicines, they advertised on local TV stations that the above-mentioned medicines can cure diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases, and recruited marketing personnel to form a "talking team". By pretending to be a medical expert and making false promises that "you can see a doctor for free in all the top three hospitals in the country", after defrauding the trust of middle-aged and elderly patients with special diseases, they sell 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.
4. Jiangsu public security organs detected the case of Bai and others making and selling counterfeit 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, and the amount involved was 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 organs 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.
The public security organs remind consumers that some online live broadcast rooms, online groups, and offline stores that sell famous Chinese medicine at abnormally low prices should not be taken lightly, and do not take lightly on false propaganda methods such as ancestral, collection, and secret medicines. Channels to buy such drugs to prevent being deceived.
5. Jiangxi Public Security Organs cracked the case of Zhang and others covering up and concealing the proceeds of crime
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, Yu, 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 of people purchased a large number of related drugs and then classified and assembled them for sale, and 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 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 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, the public security organs illegally purchased and sold drugs that they knew were purchased by fraudulent use of medical insurance for an amount of five Those with more than 10,000 yuan shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 312 of the Criminal Law to cover up or conceal the proceeds of crime. Severely punish crimes, and resolutely cut off the black hand reaching out to the medical insurance fund.