2/13/2023 0 Comments Tabs drugs![]() ![]() ![]() Senior Superintendent Rita Li Yim-ping, head of the Customs and Excise Department’s syndicate crimes investigation bureau, said on Monday that most of the drugs were generic, but about 60,000 were counterfeit Viagra or Cialis. Tablets for countering depression and prostate-related illnesses were also seized. More than 70 per cent of the prescription or controlled drugs, valued at HK$41 million, were for treating erectile dysfunction and contained either sildenafil or tadalafil. Anti-impotence drugs formed the bulk of a record HK$55 million (US$7 million) haul of controlled pharmaceutical products seized in a customs crackdown on a transnational syndicate, which allegedly mailed the tablets to customers around the world from its operations centre in Hong Kong.Ĭustoms officers arrested three women and two men during a series of citywide raids over the past month in which they confiscated 1.6 million pills disguised as general goods that had been flown in from India.
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