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FIA personnel raid shops selling counterfeit medicines in Saddar and Napier

KarachiThe personnel of Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) corporate crime circle registered two cases and arrested one trader for selling counterfeit medicines in separate raids conducted in markets of Saddar and Napier areas on Tuesday.The personnel also recovered huge quantities of spurious and counterfeit drugs with the packaging material.According to the

By Salis bin Perwaiz
May 06, 2015
Karachi
The personnel of Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) corporate crime circle registered two cases and arrested one trader for selling counterfeit medicines in separate raids conducted in markets of Saddar and Napier areas on Tuesday.
The personnel also recovered huge quantities of spurious and counterfeit drugs with the packaging material.
According to the FIA deputy director FIA, Kamran Attaullah, who heads the corporate crime circle, the personnel had received a number of complaints about circulation of fake medicines in the market. To probe these complaints, said Attaullah, a team had been set up in his direct supervision which included relevant officials of the Sindh government.
He said the team personnel raided shops four and eight in the Nizamia market in Denso Hall situated on MA Jinnah Road.
Deputy director Attaullah said another team comprising Inspector Muhammad Iqbal of FIA’s corporate crime circle and Sindh Inspector of Drugs Muhammad Arif Mithani conducted raids in shops located in Noorani medicine market situated on North Napier Road.
During the course of raids at the abovementioned shops, a huge quantity of unregistered and spurious was recovered with packaging material. Attaullah said the drugs were probably smuggled from India, via Afghanistan, and entered the country from Quetta.
Two cases (FIRs 05/2015 and 06/2015) were registered under Section 27 of the Drugs Act 1976 and Section 156 of Customs Act, 1969, at the office of FIA’s corporate crime circle and a trader, Abdul Haseeb s/o Abdul Habib was also arrested, said the deputy director.
Two accused, Muhammad Tariq and Muhammad Amir, could not be arrested but the FIA personnel are trying to catch them.
However, he said, information was received on the occasion that the medicine warehouse of Muhammad Tariq and Muhammad Amir was located at the third floor of Marvi Chambers and the first floor of Tawakkal Building, respectively, both situated on the MA Jinnah Road.
Attaullah said seizure memos were being prepared by the Drug Inspector Muhammad Arif Mithani for further prosecution.