A catalogue of fake Viagra dealers.

Halai Ashish runs a legitimate pharmacy for a number of years with his wife Nanya Halai, who is a pharmacist. After selling their business, Ashish and Nanya, as a result of the goodwill they enjoy in the course of running their business, use their business name to sell herbal weight-loss aids. The British couple soon get themselves involved in selling fake Viagra tablets after they become discontent with what they are earning from the weight loss aids. Their resolve to sell the erectile dysfunction treatment is as a result of the growing number of people who are looking to buy Viagra tablets.
With a deal to supply a Mexican company based in the Bahamas already in place, Ashish develops a vast network of contacts which he employs to smuggle the fake Viagra tablets into the Bahamas via Great Britain. Through a very good understanding of the art of concealment, Halai marks the packages as vitamin supplements for dogs and ships them using reputable companies such as DHL.

The Halai case spans the period of 2003 and 2004, and this starts when the fake Viagra tablets, along with a host of other counterfeit drugs, are detected and seized while being smuggled into the Heathrow and Stansted airports. After tests are run on the seized samples, up to 90 percent of the active ingredients in the drugs are found to be genuine ingredients found in pharmaceutical drugs, and a great proportion of the counterfeit drugs are sold on the internet.

Halai and his group, as further investigation establishes, are a part of a UK distribution section of a worldwide counterfeiting ring with operations in Pakistan, India and China, with tentacles also extending into the US and the Caribbean.

The Ashish drug bust – a factual story on the biggest drug scandal in the history of the UK – typifies the increasing incident of fake Viagra tablets being sold on the internet. A recent internet survey shows that there are over 500 pharmaceutical companies selling Viagra tablets online, with a great percentage of these online dealers not genuine.

Despite not being genuine, the Ashish gang went as far as prescribing the Viagra tablets to their prospective buyers, and this shows the length to which the fake dealers could go to give a semblance of ethicality to their business.

Continuing with the fake Viagra dealers tales, the Chinese police in the eastern province of Zhejiang raided a 30-man gang on the suspicion of selling or making fake Viagra tablets.

During the raid, 18,000 fake Viagra tablets were seized along with over a ton of fake drugs, and they were to be sold to over 12 countries by the gang.

12 people were arrested in Guangdong with one thousand kilogram of fake drugs and volumes of raw materials for producing cheap Viagra tablets.
Also swelling the litany of fake drugs dealership is the interception of a freight cargo on the 18th of December at the Paris main air hub at Roissy. The cargo was bound for Brazil, and fake branded and generic Viagra tablets were found cloned in the characteristic colour and shape of Viagra and Cialis pills in some boxes each containing four of the fake tablets.

The counterfeits were determined when representatives from Pfizer and Eli Lilly, the respective makers of Viagra and Cialis, inspected the drugs.

Mike Deats, Head of Enforcement at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, in responding to the issue of the menace posed by the boom in the internet sales of fake Viagra pills, said that people who buy Viagra tablets without prescription online not only swell the bank accounts of the unscrupulous dealers, but stand the risk of endangering their lives.