Two men have been jailed and another handed a suspended sentence, for selling more than three million doses of prescription-only and unlicensed medicines, including controlled medicines.
A Florida doctor has been sent to prison after submitting a false affidavit claiming she had screened children in a clinical study looking at the effectiveness of drugs given to children with asthma when she had not.
The Mafia is responsible for most pharmaceutical cargo thefts in Europe according to a researcher who says €30m ($33.5m) worth of drugs are stolen while in transit across the continent each year.
More evidence linking fake pharmaceuticals and organised crime emerged today with Dutch police seizing suspicious Viagra pills along with cocaine, MDMA and burglary tools.