Customs seizes 7 million fake sex pills

Dubai Customs seized a large amount of counterfeit medicine from a warehouse of a registered local company at the Dry Port in Dubai.

The confiscation of seven million pills of different medicine is considered one of the largest seizures in the region.

Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Executive Chairman of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation and Dubai Customs Director-General, issued a statement during a media conference at Dubai Customs held yesterday in the presence of JH Siberell, US Consul General in Dubai and a number of officials.

Ahmed said tests conducted on samples of the the pills, which were counterfeited sexual supplements bearing trademarks of international companies, were locally prohibited.

The case is considered an infringement of legal protection of the companies owning such trademarks and a clear violation of the UAE health legislations, which prevents selling the particular medicine unless a medical prescription is issued by a licensed doctor, as per the ministerial decisions issued under the law of pharmacy profession and pharmaceutical institutions.

He said that the investigations conducted by Dubai Customs revealed that an employee of the implicated company stored the medicine after receiving it from an Arab trader. He kept it on a quay at the Dry Port Customs Centre, which belongs to the referred company, without notifying the manager of the company who was outside the UAE, in exchange of Dh3,000 a month. Ahmed said the case had been transferred to competent authorities. He reiterated Dubai Customs keenness to combat attempts that threaten the UAE's safety and IPR.

He said: "I hereby affirm Dubai Customs persistence in taking every necessary action to protect IPR, now and in the future, and achieving our vision towards being the leading Customs administration in the world."

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