In yet another revelation in the counterfeit drug scam, the Transport Nagar police raided the mastermind Navneet Sharma's office in Ghaziabad on Tuesday and recovered documents proving that the accused had swindled at least Rs 36 lakh out of 23 multinational companies.
In a unique modus-operandi, the accused and his gang used to sign contracts with multi-national companies for exposing counterfeit drugs of these companies being sold in the market. The accused used to charge up to Rs 1.25 lakh from each company for a police raid. They used to plant the counterfeit medicines prepared by these companies at a place and then they, themselves, informed the police and took them to that place. After the police recovered the drugs from the stipulated spot, the accused would send a copy of FIR to the companies and earn the contract money.
"We have arrested five gang members from Ghaziabad in UP and they have confessed to 11 police raids in which they planted the counterfeit drugs and tipped off the police about it. As per the contracts with the multi-national companies, they would send the FIR claiming that they had busted a counterfeit drug racket and claimed the money," said Suryaveer Singh, incharge of Transport Nagar police station.
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