Company that trades in counterfeit medicines busted in Baghdad: DGIS

Security

29-05-2024, 08:50

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INA- Baghdad

The General Directorate of Intelligence and Security DGIS, declared on Tuesday that it had busted a company in Baghdad that traded in counterfeit and expired medications.

DGIS released the following statement, which the Iraqi News Agency (INA) obtained: "The Directorate's detachments in Baghdad, working with various security forces, were able to seize a pharmaceutical company trading expired medicines and arrest a suspect inside the company in one of the capital's areas with a careful intelligence effort."

"An illegal drug store and laboratory with fake medications, printed packaging boxes, unofficial fake labels, and a machine for packaging medications were also taken by the force," according to DGIS.

"The accused was handed over with the seizures to the competent authorities," the Directorate confirmed.