Abbott booked for smuggling narcotic cough syrup to Bangladesh
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Investigation Department (CID) has registered a case against Abbott Health Care Pvt Ltd and their
associates for smuggling Rs 57.6 crore worth cough syrup containing narcotic
components into Bangladesh using fake bills.
Based
on an alert by customs sleuths based in Shillong six months ago, the Drugs
Control Administration (DCA), Telangana, launched a probe after 5,100 bottles
of Phensedyl cough syrup were seized
by the customs sleuths while being smuggled into Bangladesh. The batch numbers
on the seized cough syrup bottles indicated that they were supposed to be
marketed in Nizamabad.
According
to director of DCA, Telangana, Akun Sabharwal, Phensedyl syrup contains the
narcotic compound codeine (isolated from opium) and it was being used for
substance abuse in Bangladesh, where sale of alcohol is prohibited.
Explaining how the fraud was executed, the DCA chief said: "Abbott Health
Care Pvt Ltd transports stocks of Phensedyl from their Baddi plant in Himachal
Pradesh to its C&F depot at Uppal. The depot invoiced the stocks to
specific distributors recruited by the state marketing managers and their
subordinates. These 'retailers' were billed large quantities of the stock, but
investigation revealed that most of these 'retailers' do not exist and some,
who were there, have no idea of the activity," Sabharwal said.
According
to the DCA chief, the stock was actually delivered to certain individuals
through DLS Transport, Nacharam, who pooled the stocks and sent them by train
from Secunderabad to Kolkata.
"The
manufacturer, in collusion with their C&F agent and certain pharmaceutical
dealers, had diverted the drug from Telangana and AP market to Kolkata, and
from there to places across the border. This has been done by falsification of
records. As per the probe, we have realised that approximately Rs 57.6 crore
worth syrup was diverted this way to make illegal gains," Sabharwal said.
The
DCA registered nine cases against Abbott health Care Pvt Ltd and others. As
they have no power to book cases under the NDPS Act or arrest the accused, the
DCA has lodged a complaint with the CID, Telangana. Based on the details
submitted by DCA, the CID sleuths registered a case under sections 8, 21, 22
& 29 of the NDPS Act and sections 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating)
and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on
Monday.
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