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PF fights importation and commercialization of fake medicines from abroad

This Thursday (17th) the Federal Police are fighting a clandestine scheme for the importation and commercialization of counterfeit drugs of foreign origin.

The operation, called Autoimune by the PF, fulfills 32 search and seizure warrants in Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, and more preventive arrest warrants in Mato Grosso, issued by the 7th Federal Criminal Court. from SJMT.

This operation has the support of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and the Sanitary Surveillance Departments of the municipality of Cuiabá and the states of Goiás, São Paulo and Espírito Santo.

The investigations began after the seizure, at Campo Grande International Airport (MS), of several boxes with medicines coming from Argentina without documentation indicating legal entry into Brazil.

In the first phase of the operation, the police identified that the parallel market of foreign medicines had the participation of several shell companies in 65 municipalities in 16 states and in the Federal District, and in 10 months, they moved about R$ 4 million.

The name of the operation refers to the use of imported drugs in the treatment of various autoimmune diseases, that is, pathologies in which the immune system attacks healthy cells, leading to the development of the most varied symptoms.

Source: CNN Brasil

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