Bad business: Two arrested for manufacturing spurious drugs
Two arrested for manufacturing spurious drugs
LAHORE:
Two factory owners accused of making spurious medicines were arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency on Thursday.
FIA Punjab Director Dr Usman Anwar said on April 3, an FIA team raided a factory where spurious drugs were being made. The factory owners managed to flee but appeared in court to obtain pre-arrest bail from the Drug Court. On Thursday, the court rejected the bail pleas of Sabir Khokhar and Irfan Khokhar. Separately, an FIA team and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority officials raided House No20, Street 9, behind AM Colony, Gulshan-i-Ravi and recovered four gateway exchanges, several SIM cards and a laptop. The FIA director said Waseem Jameel was operating the grey traffic from a house he had rented.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2014.
Two factory owners accused of making spurious medicines were arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency on Thursday.
FIA Punjab Director Dr Usman Anwar said on April 3, an FIA team raided a factory where spurious drugs were being made. The factory owners managed to flee but appeared in court to obtain pre-arrest bail from the Drug Court. On Thursday, the court rejected the bail pleas of Sabir Khokhar and Irfan Khokhar. Separately, an FIA team and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority officials raided House No20, Street 9, behind AM Colony, Gulshan-i-Ravi and recovered four gateway exchanges, several SIM cards and a laptop. The FIA director said Waseem Jameel was operating the grey traffic from a house he had rented.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2014.