New Crown pneumonia vaccine counterfeiting case. In the fake vaccine cases uncovered by police in Jiangsu, Beijing and Shandong, those involved have been processing and making fake vaccines since September last year by injecting physiological saline into pre-filled and sealed syringe combinations and selling them at a higher price, making a profit of 18 million yuan, and replacing it with mineral water at a later stage due to a shortage of physiological saline. Some of the vaccines were also exported to other countries.
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party announced a horrifying case of vaccine counterfeiting in Xin Guan. Xinhua News Agency reported this Monday evening that during the initial period when the New Crown pneumonia vaccine was marketed for vaccination, individual unscrupulous elements were lusting for profits, profiteering through counterfeiting, selling at high prices and operating illegally in violation of state regulations, and conducting mass vaccination without authorization, seriously disrupting the order of Epidemic prevention and endangering public health safety. As of February 10, 2021, national prosecutors have approved the arrest of 70 suspects in 21 cases in accordance with the law.
Officials announce multiple cases of fake New Crown vaccines involving more than 10 million yuan
The Communist Party’s top prosecutor’s office recently released four typical cases involving New Crown vaccine crimes, disclosing some shocking details, including the use of physiological saline to make counterfeits and the receipt of money to solicit customers to participate in emergency vaccinations. For example, in August last year, Kong and Qiao learned about the injection style and packaging style of genuine vaccines through the Internet. Subsequently, they used physiological saline to manufacture fake New Crown vaccine. In November, Kong and others were arrested. Police identified the two suspects mentioned above as having manufactured and sold about 58,000 doses of the fake New Crown vaccine, making a profit of about 18 million yuan. More than 3,000 doses of fake vaccines were seized at the scene.
For the endless incidents of Food and drug counterfeiting in China. Lawyer Tang, who has represented several vaccine rights cases, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on Tuesday (16) that problematic vaccines have emerged many times on the mainland, but each Time they have been dealt with hastily, and the problems have not only not been truly resolute, but the people who raised them have been silenced. He said, “Officials never solve the problems raised by the people, but the people who raised the problems. Problems like drug safety, vaccine safety and food safety have erupted again and again in the past. Instead of trying to solve the problems first and foremost to prevent them from recurring, the officials first tried to cover them up as much as they could. Rather, the first thing is to cover it up if they can.”
Pictured, an inactivated vaccine for the new coronavirus developed by Kexing is displayed at the China International Fair for Trade in Services, Sept. 4, 2020. (Reuters)
Xinhua reported that several other typical cases released this time showed that after the fake vaccines flowed into the society, some unscrupulous elements sold them to the public at high prices and entrusted a rural doctor, Lin, to inoculate the purchasers at his residence and in his car. There are also unscrupulous elements who arrange for ineligible people to participate in emergency vaccination programs in hospitals at high prices, and even solicit customers by issuing advertisements to the public through WeChat groups, forging a full set of documents proving vaccination such as certificates of corporate employees, certificates of overseas employment and airline itineraries, and charging high fees. There are even unscrupulous people who smuggle fake vaccines outside the country and tarnish the country’s image.
Businessman: Officials make excuses for problems with national vaccines outside the country
Mr. Guo, a businessman in Hebei, told the station that the official’s statement that “unscrupulous people smuggle fake vaccines abroad to tarnish the country’s image” might be a hint: “The possibility of exporting fake vaccines is very slim. Which country imports vaccines without testing? Including the import of vaccines from your mainland, which department of your country gives, or which enterprise gives? It should be very strict, he has to check the source of your vaccine, the export of a commodity to so many procedures, not to mention the vaccine. She (the official) is laying down an explainable reason for the domestic vaccine to go wrong outside the country.”
Lu Jun, co-founder of the anti-discrimination charity Beijing Yiren Ping Center, told the station that on the mainland, what is more serious than smuggled vaccines is problematic vaccines produced by regular manufacturers: “For example, the vaccine injury incident that happened in Shanxi in 2007, and the one that happened in Shandong in 2016. Either regular manufacturers produced vaccines of poor quality, or government epidemic prevention departments operated in various irregularities, or even violations, in the process of vaccine procurement, distribution and transportation.”
Lu Jun said there are many more undisclosed vaccine incidents, and they have caused irreparable consequences for children and adults on the mainland.
The Communist Party’s Supreme Procuratorate recently asked procuratorial organs at all levels to continue to play their functions of intervening in investigations, approving arrests and instituting public prosecutions to resolutely curb all kinds of criminal activities involving vaccines.
In response, netizen Mr. Cai said to this station that, driven by profit, whether it is fake milk powder, fake food or vaccine crimes, it will not stop: “In fact, this problem spreads across almost all industries. As long as there is a profitable field, there should be counterfeit and shoddy products being manufactured and sold. Because vaccines are now in short supply as anti-epidemic materials, many countries are suffering from the lack of vaccines. In such a period, it is not at all surprising that counterfeit vaccines appear on the mainland.”
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