April 21, 2005
They couldn't keep it up foreverNews
So an Airborne Express Supe in Philly gets suspicious and...busted.
An Internet pharmacy based in India that sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs without prescriptions has been indicted by U.S. authorities, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dr. Brij Bhushan Bansal of Agra (say THAT teen times fast) was "charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, money laundering and misbranding drugs".
Though Bansal is the alleged mastermind behind a business that provided the pills to practically 200 websites which promoted them, his son, daughter and son-in-law are also defendants, since they helped him purvey Codeine and Viagra.
The market rate for 100 tablets of Codeine is $64; Dr. BBB added a tidy $200 premium to that. Valium was even more expensive-- a hefty $198 vs. the $27 your local scam-artist charges. ;) Authorities were able to seize $7.1 million of the group's proceeds. Pity. That's a paltry portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars they probably made.
Prepare for more "P"s:
"There was no physician, no pharmacist and no quality control of these drugs that were sold at above-market rates," Patrick Meehan, U.S. attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania, told a news conference.
Meehan said the operation endangered the health of consumers by offering drugs without prescription. He added some people got sick from drugs bought online but he declined to offer specifics.
Now you know two things:
1. where the Viagra in all your Spam is procured
2. that Mallus are genetically predisposed towards alliteration. ;)
anna on April 21, 2005 03:17 PM in News · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
