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Months of investigation led the Prosecutor’s Office to expose a criminal network dedicated to counterfeiting, altering and marketing medicines to treat high-cost diseases, thus putting people’s health at risk.
By: Time
The tests show that expired, decomposed or discontinued medicines were brought into the country from Venezuela and Ecuador, in precarious conditions and without maintaining the cold chain. In addition, medicines that were for the exclusive use of the health system would have been extracted from EPS and delivered to the members of this organization, who sold them.
In the case of medicines for institutional use, the illegal group erased their expiration dates, records of manufacturing batches and the legend of institutional use. Thus, they passed them off as common medicines and sold them in drugstores or distributed them, on request, to different cities as dietary supplements and medicines to treat hemophilia, cancer, neurological or respiratory complications, among other diseases.
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14 people who would be part of the illegal network were captured in 22 search and search proceedings carried out by the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office in #BogotaCucuta, Barranquilla and Soledad, #Atlantic, #valledupar, #Cesar and Cienaga, #Magdalena. pic.twitter.com/pUXKO2uXPc
– Colombia Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaCol) October 1, 2022
