Transplant patient jailed for medication business
Print Edition
A KIDNEY transplant patient and his wife who set up a 50 million yuan (US$8.1 million) business illegally buying and selling patients’ medication were among a gang of 22 people jailed yesterday.
The group received terms of between two and eight years, the Qingpu District People’s Court said, without specifying individual sentences.
In December 2012 police discovered a man identified as Lu Jianhua and his wife had sent 5.5 tons of medication in 209 batches from Shanghai to Henan and Guangdong provinces using a logistics company, the court said.
When police found drugs in the same batches with different production dates, they suspected the couple were illegally trading in medication from various sources.
Another 20 suspects were later held around the city, with medication valued at 4 million yuan seized.
Lu underwent a kidney transplant in Shanghai in 1998 and in time realized that there was a “business opportunity” for the follow-up medication he was taking, the court heard.
He began selling expensive drugs prescribed by doctors in hospital and partly covered by the public health care system to other patients and bought cheaper drugs instead, the court heard.
In 2011, Lu and Chen started their illegal business. They made contact with many dealers around the country through attending trade fairs and activities organized by organ transplant recipients, and quickly built up an underground trade network.
They bought medicine with prices half of market values from the dealers.
The total sum involved was said to be 50 million yuan.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
