Written by Stuart Stevens | Monday, 17 September 2007
A huge haul of fake erectile dysfunction medication has been confiscated in Dubai by the customs authorities there in what is the second big drug bust in a month. Over 5 million “sexual stimulant” pills and sleeping pills estimated to be worth in the region of £3million were confiscated in a daring raid carried out by inspectors from the Dubai Customs.

Dubai operates special Free Zone areas that allow cargo to be shipped easily to and from them and this makes them very attractive for people tried to smuggle the erectile dysfunction medication around the world. The law in Dubai also says that if you ship anything to Dubai free zones you can then stamp the products with a point of origin label stating that the product came from Dubai and not from the country that they are actually originated from. Many manufacturers of fake erectile dysfunction medication therefore are shipping the fake drugs to Dubai so that they do not seem to have originated in India or China which makes western customs authorities extremely suspicious.
Among other things the customs investigators found large quantities of the Levitra erectile dysfunction drug made by the German drug company Bayer. Levitra is fast becoming one of the globe's most popular erectile dysfunction medications and has been proven in independent testing to be just as effective as Viagra.
The customs authorities of Dubai have been destroying the confiscated medications and will carry on doing so in the future. The head of the Dubai customs said that he was extremely happy with the result and that he wanted it to be made known that Dubai would not be used as a port of convenience for smugglers of fake erectile dysfunction medication or any other illegal products. This raid was the largest seizure of fake medications in Dubai.