Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy on Monday indicted a 15 member fake drug ring, in which Huynh Ngoc Quang, the 29-year-old kingpin and former director of Vietnam-France Pharmaceutical Company, was given a 10 year sentence.
Huynh Ngoc Quang and 14 of his accomplices were sentenced for manufacturing and selling fake drugs. While Quang received a 10 year sentence, his 14 accomplices received from one year and 11 months to 10 years in prison.
According to the indictment, Quang and his accomplices bought or manufactured cheap drugs and then had them repackaged to appear as imported brands, to sell at high profits.
The team of 14 crooks manufactured ersatz drugs at many places and sold them off in separate districts across the country to avoid police detection.
Quang confessed in court that by the time of their arrest in January 2010, he and his accomplices had sold more than 64,000 packages of fake drugs worth more than VND1 billion (US$47,560), raking in about VND200 million.
