Spurious drugs recovered from lab in Raiwind

FIA arrests two suspects

LAHORE: A team of Corporate Crime Cell of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Lahore recovered huge quantities of spurious drugs including medicines used to enhance sexual hormones during a raid at Neelum Laboratories and Dawakhana at Raiwind Road on Thursday.

An officer of FIA said that upon receiving information of the suspects manufacturing these drugs in the garb of herbal medicines, the team raided their hide-out and recovered 51 fake brands of tablets, capsules, syrup and powders.

The team also found evidences which showed these medicines were being supplied and sold to 2,000 medical stores across Pakistan.

The agency arrested two suspects identified as Mazhar Hashmi and Irfan. Further proceedings were underway by the team.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2017.