Man arrested for faking medicine brands
Man arrested for faking medicine brands
JAKARTA (JP): North Jakarta police arrested a man yesterday
for allegedly counterfeiting some traditional Chinese medicine
brands, a police officer said.
Chief of Penjaringan Police precinct Maj. Sujarno said that
Michael Husada Yunawan alias Cuming was arrested at his home at
Jl. Pluit Selatan I/38, Penjaringan, North Jakarta.
He said the house was used as a factory for packaging his
medicine products.
Sijaro said Michael had neither a permit from the Ministry of
Health to produce the medicine nor a permit from the Ministry of
Manpower to hire workers.
He said the man also violated regulations by hiring ten
underage girls at his factory and two warehouses, located,
respectively, in DKI Complex Blok C/19, Kapuk, and Grafisa
Complex Blok CL/17, Jelambar, both in West Jakarta.
Hundreds of bogus Chinese medicine types, packed in almost 400
medium-sized boxes, were confiscated from Michael's warehouses,
he said.
In a related development, a man believed to be a drug dealer
was arrested in West Jakarta on Tuesday morning for allegedly
trafficking drugs worth at least Rp 20 million (US$8,163).
The seized drugs were 80,000 Nipam barbiturate pills and 2,000
Rohypnol tranquilizer pills, City Police spokesman Lt. Col. E.
Aritonang said Wednesday.
He said the drugs were confiscated from a man identified as
Nurdian Leonardo, 47.
Nurdian alias A Ten was arrested at his house on Jl.
Perniagaan Timur 38 following a lead West Jakarta police received
from Nurdian's neighbors.
Police said Nurdian confessed he sold several types of cheap
drugs, including Nipam and Rohypnol, to customers over the phone.
"Customers usually called Nurdian with their orders and then
he would deliver the drugs to places where both parties agreed to
meet," Aritonang said.
He said police were still questioning Nurdian to find out more
about his drug business.
A police source said there was a possibility that Nurdian
might be connected to people arrested earlier at a raid on a
Nipam packaging facility.
In March, police made their biggest Nipam seizure this year
when more than two million 10-milligram Nipam pills were
confiscated. Twenty-one people were arrested at the factory in
Taman Kota housing estate, West Jakarta.
The government has banned the production and trade of Nipam
since the 1980s. Since then, the pills have been popular with
drug users.
Nipam, Rohypnol and other cheap drugs are commonly sold for as
low as Rp 2,500 for a strip of 10 pills at many roadside
pharmaceutical stores, particularly in Senen and Tanah Abang in
Central Jakarta, Jl. Gajah Mada in West Jakarta, and Blok A
market in South Jakarta. (cst)