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Fake Viagra takes man to legal sentence
May 17, 2005
A CALIFORNIA man trafficked $US5.8 million ($7.67 million) in counterfeit
pills made to look like the sexual enhancing drug Viagra,
a Los Angeles court was told today.
Frank Fu Jen Huang, 59, pleading guilty earlier this year to charges
of conspiracy, trafficking and making fake drugs and was sentenced
to 2500 hours of community service.
Prosecutors said Huang and a co-defendant, David Srulevitch, began
making fake Viagra in 2002 after it became too difficult to get
counterfeit Viagra made in China past US Customs.
After their shipments from China were intercepted by customs officers,
the pair made about 700,000 counterfeit tablets of the anti-impotence
drug in a California laboratory where Srulevitch worked.
Srulevitch received a suspended sentence of five years' probation
after he pleaded guilty in September to selling a counterfeit drug.
source:- http://www.news.com.au/
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