The Specialized Body for the Control of Fuels and Merchandise Trade (Ceccom) and other authorities seized around a million counterfeit blood pressure pills and painkillers.
The medicines were packed in boxes with logos and emblems of recognized national and foreign pharmaceutical companies.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, during the operations carried out in conjunction with the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes and Crimes against Health (Pedecsa) and the General Directorate of Medicines, Food and Sanitary Products (Digemaps), three tons of materials were confiscated. bulk raw materials, equipment and clothing used for the manufacture and packaging of drugs.
The soldiers of the intelligence corps that is part of the Illicit Table coordinated by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes (MICM), also seized two firearms of different calibers, 76 tanks, 86 boxes full of pills and 34 machines that they were used for mixing, filling, weighing, blistering and labeling the products.
According to the information, the seizures were made during raids simultaneously to homes and businesses located in East Santo Domingo, the National District and Santiago, which were intervened through court orders.
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Ramón Pérez Fermín, Vice Minister of Internal Trade of the ministry, assured that the battle against clandestine manufacturing and marketing “does not stop” and that the MICM will continue working to eradicate illicit trade in the Dominican Republic.
He assured that those responsible for these events will be brought to justice.
Meanwhile, Brigadier General Cesar Miranda, director of Ceccom, added that, with the support of the institutions that make up the Illicit Roundtable, “they will not stop before unscrupulous people who violate Law 17-19 and threaten life and the health of innocent people.”
