Arrested 3 subjects for crime of trading fake oriental medicine

(Baonghean.vn)- Yen Thanh District Police are temporarily detaining 3 suspects for the crime of trading in oriental medicine of unknown origin.

Previously, at 10 p.m. on November 21, while on duty on Highway 533, in Tho Thanh Commune, Yen Thanh District Police patrol force discovered and arrested Le Nguyen Chung, born in 1969, in Linh Son Hamlet, Duc Thanh Commune, who was transporting 367 plastic boxes of Oriental medicine of unknown origin (each bottle weighed 1kg).

Subject Le Nguyen Chung and evidence

During a search of Chung's residence, police discovered 373 more medicine boxes, 1 table scale, a box-capping machine, 16 labels with the name Tien Hanh Traditional Oriental Medicine Pharmacy, 1.8 kg of brown powder, 2.5 kg of round foil used to seal the box lids, and 50 unused plastic boxes. According to Chung's initial statement, the above mentioned medicine, which has a weight loss effect, was purchased from Ha Tinh province, packaged and brought to Hanoi for consumption.

Expanding the investigation of the case, Yen Thanh District Police arrested two more subjects, Phan Ngoc Dao, born in 1993, in Hamlet 1, Hau Thanh Commune, and Thai Khac Thanh, born in 1969, in Hamlet 7, Lang Thanh Commune, confiscated 68 plastic boxes containing the same type of medicine, 57 labels of the Phong Nhuong Traditional Oriental Medicine Pharmacy - Duc Tho - Ha Tinh, 176 labels of the traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy "H.Van Thap Toan Dai Bo", 30 unused seals.

Currently, the district police continue to investigate and expand the case./.

Thai Hong