Detection lasted through October into this month to track down a transnational gang. It had set up a company to sell fake and smuggled medicines. The company had more than fifty branches all over Russia, reads the release.
The company recurred to double-entry bookkeeping for tax evasion. Revenues were transferred out of Russia for laundering. The annual turnover exceeded 200 million US dollars, say rough estimations.
Organised crime squad inspectors checked a Moscow-based company's warehouses to find huge batches of medicines-more than a hundred makes-produced and imported to Russia outside rules. They include such widely-used medicines as No-Spa, Trichopol and Tinidasol. The medicines came from East European and Asian countries.
Criminal proceedings may be launched on swindling, contraband and manufacture/sale of commodities below safety standards. The police will join hands with the Health Ministry and law enforcement agencies of several countries for many more checks.
