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Police Bust 4 Major Pirated Drug Cases
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The Chinese police has busted four major pirated drug cases since a nationwide crackdown was launched two years ago, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Tuesday.

-- The police detained 19 suspects in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Liaoning for allegedly produce fake "Tamiflu", a widely-used bird flu drug, and sell them to the United States via the Internet, in coordinated raids on May 24-25. This was done thanks to intelligence from U.S. authorities.

-- In another crackdown codenamed "Jupiter Action", Chinese police, with the help of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), busted a gang that manufactured and distributed fake anti-malaria drug in Guangxi, Guangdong and Yunnan and Shandong.

-- Guangdong police, in cooperation with the U.S. law agencies, busted a gang making and selling counterfeit "Viagra", an anti-impotence drug developed by the U.S.-based Pfizer Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2006, seizing about a ton of fake drugs, two production lines and large quantities of raw materials.

-- The police in east Zhejiang on April 20, 2006 seized a man surnamed Huang who planned to flee overseas after selling 18,000 granules of fake drugs worth more than 190,000 yuan (US$25,000 ) to 24 people in 12 countries including the United States and the Netherlands.

(Xinhua News Agency July 25, 2007)

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