Pfizer Catching Viagra Criminals

Pfizer is actively hunting down these criminals themselves...

All over the world we are receiving reports that local police and law enforcement agencies are clamping down on people who import, export and sell unlicensed and counterfeit Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. Following reports from the World Health Organization and other health organizations around the world, the problem of fake medication has been brought into the spotlight and governments all over the world are realizing the its seriousness.One of the biggest areas of counterfeit medicine is the erectile dysfunction drug market and it is said to be extremely lucrative for the criminals involved.…that is until they are caught.

Recently two men in Israel were jailed for importing fake Viagra medication and local reporters told Ukmedix News that this is the first time people have been given prison terms for importing counterfeit Viagra, showing that the authorities are now serious about stamping out the problem. One of the men will be in prison for fifteen months and the other one received a six month sentence. In all over 160,000 fake Viagra pills were seized by the customs authorities.

As expected Pfizer were extremely pleased about the catching of these criminals and praised the Israeli police for their work. At Ukmedix News we have come across reports which show that Pfizer is actively hunting down these criminals themselves and then tipping off the police to arrest them. The big drug companies all around the world have to increasingly use resources to protect their trademarks and to catch people who infringe on their patents. Pfizer is busy with its campaign to sue these criminals for civil damages to try and win back some of their losses.

Another big erectile dysfunction drug manufacturer Eli Lilly that makes the second best selling impotence drug on the market namely Cialis, reckons that in all about 30% of erectile dysfunction medication sold in the world today is counterfeit. Eli Lilly said that this is not only losing revenue for the companies in the short term but it is giving the erectile dysfunction drugs a bad name as very often the counterfeit drugs do not work.