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Police Raids Unearth Online Racket Selling Forge Acomplia May 11, 2007 The concurrent police raids performed on 24, 25 and 26 April in five European countries exposed an online racket engrossed in the sale of counterfeit Acomplia pills, according to Eurojust, the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit. These raids were conducted under the investigation, instigated by the public health department of the Paris public prosecutor's office. The eighth-month long investigation started just after the arrest of a U.K. citizen in France who was carrying one bottle of counterfeit acomplia. The raids were escorted by the officers of France's Central Brigade for Industrial and Artistic Fraud and the Central Office for the Fight Against Crimes using Technology and Communications. The French investigators said they had exposed an international racket in counterfeit Acomplia that is manufactured under unhygienic conditions and then are sold on the internet. However, the names and web addresses of the offending sites have not been revealed by Eurojust.
"The counterfeiting of such drugs is a serious crime and poses
a risk to health as they are made available extensively through
the internet to all customers, including minors," a Eurojust
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