Fake Medicines

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Hoy newspaper is reporting that at least 40% of the fake medicines that enter the country come from Colombia and Venezuela. This is according to Claudio Almonte, director of Investigations and Falsifications for the Association of Representatives, Agents and Pharmaceutical Producers (ARAPF). This black market sector produces RD$30 million a month. Almonte said that the medicines are brought into the country by Dominican and Haitian women who are used as mules.

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