The Prosecutor’s Office led the five raids carried out in Ibarra and Quito as part of an investigation into the sale of counterfeit drugs in Ecuador.
Through simultaneous operations carried out, early this Friday, in the cities of Quito (Pichincha) and Ibarra (Imbabura) by the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Police Four people who were involved in the sale of counterfeit drugs in the country were arrested.
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The five raids carried out within this case in various areas of Quito and Ibarra were part of an investigation prior initiated more than ten months ago by the Prosecutor’s Office. Also operating He was a personal part of the Agency for Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance (Arcsa).
So far, what is known is that they were seized in places arranged as warehouses where more than a million counterfeit medicines of all kinds were collected, and even expired, whose value after marketing could exceed $ 400,000.
Information from the National Director of Investigation of Crimes against Corruption of the Police reveals that the adulterated drugs arrived from Peru and Colombia and were interned in Ecuador using clandestine roads. The four detainees, according to Colonel Freddy Galarza, national director of Investigations of Crimes against Corruption, would be Ecuadorian and would not register previous antecedents.
“Medical supplies and products for human consumption expired, adulterated, without counting on sanitary regulations corresponding, products that were packaged in an irregular way, to later be stored and commercialized in Ecuador, “said the officer.
Among the seized were adulterated drugs of drugs with trade names, but that did not have the health records that the law determines, and even boxes were found with drugs that stopped being sold in Ecuador many years ago, for example, terramycin.
The authorities have not delved into more details of the operation, which in some places raided continues with the uprising of information. What has been confirmed is that the detainees will be placed at the orders of the respective authorities so that cases can be formulated and the prosecutorial investigation for the crime accused by the Prosecutor’s Office begins. (I)
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