A joint team of environmental police and
market management officers in Hanoi has seized 12 cartons containing jars of
fake Lishou weight-loss drug.
Following
a tip-off, the team inspected and detained the fake goods at a warehouse at 647
Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District yesterday night.
Inside
the 12 cartons were nearly 2,000 jars (40 500 mg tablets per jar) of Lishou, a
Chinese brand for weight-loss drug. The fake food had been carried to the
storage by a man named Pham Hong Pho.
Pho
told the inspectors that he had been hired to transported the goods by a woman
named Tran Thi Thanh Ly in Ho Chi Minh City.
The
team also found a lot of beauty care products without origin, including 3X
Slimming Power, and a large quantity of anti-faking stamps issued by the
Criminal Science Institute under the Ministry of Public Security.
After
examination, the inspectors concluded all the stamps were fake, too.
The
packaging of Lishou jars shows that the importer and distributor is Phu Hai
Medical Equipment Joint Stock Company located in Dong Da District, Hanoi.
The
company later told the team that it has stopped importing and distributing
Lishou on since September 5, 2011 after the Health Ministry ordered a recall of
the product from the market since it was found to contain an excessive amount
of sibutramine (8-10 mg per tablet), which is harmful to human health.
The
total value of the fake goods was estimated at about VND1.1 billion
(US$52,800), said Lieutenant Colonel Pham Giang Son, from the Hanoi
environmental police.
Son
said the team was expanding their investigation and that all the seized goods
would be destroyed.
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