EU LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES SEIZE MILLIONS OF COUNTERFEIT PILLS
September 1st, 2014
LAW enforcement authorities in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Cyprus and Hungary seized on Monday (September 1) several million counterfeit pills in simultaneous operations coordinated by the European Union (EU) law enforcement agency Europol and the judicial cooperation agency Eurojust. The medicines seized are worth at least EUR10 million, according to Europol.The operations are part of an ongoing crackdown by a range of law enforcement bodies on the distribution of counterfeit medicines in the EU. Coordinated investigations into the activities of organised crime ...
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