Thai authorities arrested a Chinese doctor for selling natural medication in Thailand with no permit and seized 60,000 herbal medication tablets and pharmaceutical machines.
The Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched particulars of the Chinese doctor’s arrest during a press conference yesterday. The forty five year old doctor, Lijun Cheung, reportedly operated a clinic and store within the Prawet district of Bangkok under the title Doctor Thian Chinese Medicine.
CPPD Commander Anan Nanasombat defined that officers discovered a Facebook page for the store that exaggerated the benefits of natural drugs.
The web page claimed that herbal medicine may deal with a quantity of symptoms such as insomnia, migraine, chronic acid reflux disorder (GERD), constipation, office syndrome, backache, and more. Additionally, the herbs might also nourish the liver and increase homeostatic abilities.
The Facebook web page additionally posted pictures and videos of when Dr Lijun joined a number of television shows in Thailand to make the store extra reliable.
However, upon further investigation, officers discovered that the doctor didn’t have a allow to promote the medication from the Thai FDA so, raided the store in the Prawet district of Bangkok.
Officers arrested Dr Lijun on the retailer and seized his medication and tools as evidence including 60,000 herbal medicine tablets, seven-hundred bags of liquid natural drugs, and pharmaceutical machines.
Dr Lijun disclosed that he studied traditional Chinese medication (TCM) in China and bought a license in TCM follow in Thailand. He had information of the herbs and decided to supply the drugs and offered them with out permission for over a year.
Bona fide was charged with violating Section 58(4) of the Herbal Products Act by manufacturing and promoting herbal products with an unregistered recipe. The penalty will be imprisonment for up to one yr, a fantastic of as much as 100,000 baht, or both.
In associated news, on Monday, April 24, six Chinese men had been arrested for selling faux gold to Thai folks. The officers confiscated 179 items of fake gold, 10 pretend gold statutes, eight gold sheets, 24 ATM cards, 12 cellphones, and a piercing saw at their luxurious resort within the Ratchada area of Bangkok.
The gang denied the allegation but revealed that they have been former members of the rip-off call centre gang in Indonesia before moving to Thailand to arrange their felony gang. The police revealed that extra members of the gang had been still at massive and that they might conduct further investigations to crack down on the complete network..