Written by Rupert Kircz | Thursday, 20 November 2008 | There are 2 comments
The Guardia Civil in Murcia, Spain have seized a huge amount of fake Viagra, Cialis and Levitra in a dramatic raid. Altogether it is estimated that they have impounded about 90,000 individual tablets and that the black market value of the impotence drugs is around 1.3 million euros.

The individual impotence tablets which have already been tested were found to contain only around 2/3 of the respective active ingredients of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. It was noted however that the manufacturers of these tablets had taken a lot of time to replicate the packaging and shape of the tablets exactly so only an experienced eye could tell the difference between them and the real thing.
The Guardia Civil arrested an American citizen and a Dutchman who will be charged with endangering public health and also breaking existing copyright laws. It is thought that the tablets were being sold online to unsuspecting customers all over the world.
The investigation into this criminal racket started when police observed advertisements for erectile dysfunction medication online which are illegal. Police are now using sophisticated methods of tracking down the location of web sites and using undercover operations to follow the people who work for and run them.
The police also noted that the warehouse where the impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra were stored was extremely dirty and was overrun by dogs and cats who were leaving their waste all over the place. The danger from using a fake erectile dysfunction medication is not only because of the chemical composition of the drugs but also because of the substandard health conditions that they are made in. Most of these medications are made in dirty and illegal factories in China and India that are only interested in churning out large quantities of tablets and have no interest in the quality or hygiene of their results.

There are 2 comments on this article.
Paddy O'Shea said:
I will never understand the criminal element that fakes medicines... the milk scandals coming out of china are scandalous!
Some very bad people out there... and while fake cialis might not lead to deaths its crossing the line!
Sicknote said:
Criminals are just that, criminal. They don't give a toss who or how they hurt. While there'e a fast buck to be made someone will always lose out. The genuine manufacturers should be more subsidised to bring the cost down
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