Home Latest NewsCrime & Investigations 47-Year-Old Nairobi Man Selling Counterfeit Medicines Arrested

47-Year-Old Nairobi Man Selling Counterfeit Medicines Arrested

by Mustafa Juma

Detectives from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) based in Kilimani have arrested a Nairobi man that has been trading in counterfeit medicines.

The sleuths who were accompanied by Pharmacy and Poisons board officers, and acting on a tip off from members of the public on Friday evening nabbed a 47 year old man namely Peter Cummings Thatia, a trader in counterfeit medicine within Hurlingham in Nairobi County.

Counterfeit ViagraPro capsules, two polythene bags containing a white powdery substance, a capsule filler machine, advertising fliers together with Motor Vehicle Registration number KCK 442A, a Nissan Note that the suspect was driving were recovered and retained as exhibits.

Mr Thatia is in custody awaiting arraignment for the offence of unlawfully manufacturing and selling in the course of trade in counterfeit medicines contrary to The Anti-Counterfeit Act No. 13 of 2008.

ALSO READ  Loss of 30 Million Heroin Exhibit Lands Mombasa Principal Magistrate in Hot Soup

You may also like

Leave a Comment