Another person detained in the “pharmaceutical mafia” case
The CBA officers have detained a member of an organised crime group, dealing with the so-called illegal reversed pharmaceutics distribution chain.
The officers of the Regional Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in Białystok have detained another person in the “pharmaceutical mafia” investigation in Kraków. The detainee was associated with one of the entities involved in the criminal practice of illegal exportation of pharmaceutics abroad.
All indicates that the detainee worked within an organised crime group. Its members issued and used fraudulent documents, as well as sold to pharmaceutical wholesalers certain pharmaceutical products, which they later resold and exported abroad. It concerned, among others, life-saving drugs and other drugs included in the Minister of Health’s special register of drugs in danger of unavailability, e.g. oncological, antidiabetic or anticoagulant drugs. The described procedure was carried out through the non-public health institution, which conducted a fictitious activity.
In the years 2017-2018 the criminal group smashed by the CBA collected drugs worth over PLN 50 million. It was done through a network of commercial companies. The detainee was related to an entity, which – on behalf of the group – sold the pharmaceutical products worth over PLN 13.5 million.
The detainee was presented with charges in the National Prosecutor’s Office in Białystok.
Public Relations Division, CBA
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