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Investigators found that some drugs relabeled from the French market for the U.K. market had widely variable active drug content -- or in some cases, no active content at all. Story of how Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) traced the supply to a Chinese company, Pacific Orient International.
How investigators unravelled Europe's biggest-ever fake (Chinese) medicine scam
Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 5:42 PM EST
Article Source: Wired
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You may need to bookmark the article so you can read it page by page as you have time. But a fascinating tale of tracking down the source of these illegal fake drugs is the stuff of movies.
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#1 - Tue Dec 6, 2011 5:44 PM ESTIndeed, it was better than most movies. Good seed, MinnieApolis.
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I was quite a hunt. And it was cute how they lured the couple to Houston because the wife wanted to buy diamonds. Not that girl's best friend, not at all.
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Talk about a complex operation, this was it.
I thought that using the ''wholesale diamond'' trick was classic...LOL
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Appealing to a crook's greed usually works. I am sure you have heard of crooks caught by sending them a you-have-won thing in the mail, just come in to claim your prize.
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Just think how much better off this world would be if they had worked this hard at being honest instead of crooks. Look at all of the wasted energy in order to steal.
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#2 - Thu Dec 8, 2011 6:24 PM ESTWell that is usually the case with crime, I guess part of the allure is to show that they can pull it off.
Although I wonder about the head of Pacific Orient - Did he believe that his product was just as good as the legit versions, or did he know that the active ingredients were unreliable?
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