Large shipment of illegal drugs seized in Namangan and Tashkent

Large batch of illegal medicines uncovered in Namangan and Tashkent

An operational event was conducted in cooperation with officers of the Turakurgan district department of the Department under the Prosecutor General's Office and other law enforcement agencies.

During the event, it was revealed that the head of "A." LLC established a pharmacy in a building located in the "Gisht Kuprik" mahalla of Namangan city without obtaining a license in accordance with the established procedure, and put up for sale 12,844 boxes of 425 types of medicines and medical devices with a total value of 122.9 million soums that lacked documents confirming their quality. These medicines and medical devices were seized as physical evidence.

Additionally, an operational event was conducted in the Urtachirchik district in cooperation with officers of the Tashkent Regional Department of the Department and other law enforcement agencies. During the operation, citizen D.S. and others were caught with physical evidence while selling 1,700 units of "Aksigil" and 1,693 units of "Aksa levo" medicines manufactured in foreign countries without relevant documents to citizen B.S. for 51 million soums outside of pharmacies and their branches.

Regarding these cases, criminal cases have been initiated under Article 276-12 of the Criminal Code (Production, preparation, acquisition, storage, transportation, or sale of substandard or counterfeit medicines or medical equipment for the purpose of sale, realization of medicines outside of pharmacies and their branches, as well as violation of the rules for retail realization of medicines containing potent substances by prescription), and investigative actions are being conducted.