Headline Sep27,2012/

''BA BAH BLACK SHEEP! 

Have You Any Shame?''

Recall Gabriel Zhang, from the earlier Posts.This name as it turned out was a Fake, a pseudonym. Oh, dear! Master Gabriel   Zhang, the God fearing Chinese Fake Drug Manufacture's real name was Li Wenhui. Fate and law finally caught up with him in August 2005 because of a joint US-China investigation codenamed ''Operation Ocean crossing''.In its course the authorities seized 440,000 pills that were pending sale and shipment to 10 countries including UK.


But it remained a mystery how a man who was supposed to have been in a Chinese Jail could be out producing fakes 2 years later. Regardless, Wenhui remained unapologetic to the day. But he also claims to be getting out of the Fake Trade altogether. ''I am out of the after all the troubles I've had,'' he stated on an email to the under cover journalist. The message was unbelievable as it was predictable. After years of ignoring the problem, the Chinese Government finally started to crack down on a small number of manufacturers. An example of tough action, Chinese style, was the punishment meted out to the former Food and Drug Regulator, Zheng Xiaoyu, for taking bribes to approve fake medicines. He was later executed.


And before Master Gabriel Zhang signed off to oblivion, he stated, ''They made out that I was some kind of a Mafia Figure, but I am really just a small dealer.'' Given the huge huge amounts of bogus Pills flooding the Global Markets, this could be the most honest thing he ever said.


And looking out across River Thames from MHRA Headquarters, you can make out the site of the UK's largest known counterfeit Drug Factory. The Investigators discovered the plant in a Kitchen Appliances business on a trading estate in Wembley, northwest London. Instead of supplying worktops and fridges, the unit was mass producing Fake Viagra, the tranquilisers diazepam and nitrazepam, and steroids, The police estimated that it had the capability of producing 500,000 fake pills a day.


In 2004, the head of the operations, Allen Valentine, was jailed for five and a half years and fined pound 1.25million. When he was arrested, the 47 years old Sales Rep from Pfizer had just offered pound 1.2million cash for a home on a private estate in Hertfordshire, and given his son Roshan, a gift of flying lessons worth pound 48,000. After his release from the Prison, he seemed remarkably sanguine,''The real villains are the pharmaceutical giants and the authorities,who cravenly act on behalf of these conglomerates''. This, as !WOW! discovered was the bitterest sweet real pill!


Good Night and God Bless!

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