Finance police on Thursday
arrested 11 people in relation to a probe into the suspected
trafficking of illegal medicines.
The suspects, all owners of sex shops selling the counterfeit
products in various regions of Italy, are thought to be part of
a trafficking ring.
One person has also been detained in the operation and over
10,000 packages of unauthorised and potentially harmful
medicines seized.
The probe began following a tax inspection in a sex shop near
Ravenna.
There, finance police found boxes of unauthorised drugs
coming mainly from China and India containing Sildenafil and
Tadalafil, the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis, and a
spray containing Lidocaina, which is normally used as a local
anaesthetic.
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