The company Luna Pharm from Brandenburg to have shipped stolen cancer drugs. Since the disclosure of the scandal are in the middle of July there is a dispute: Luna Pharm is fighting against the withdrawal of the operating permit. The company knew that it was stolen property? Now the new tracks lead to Italy – to steels, drugs, thief of the Mafia.
How the “daily mirror” reported, the Brandenburg drugs scandal. … The company Luna Pharm to shipped in Greece stolen cancer drugs to pharmacies in several States, were the previous allegations. It is feared, among other things, that the stolen property was incorrectly stored and the medication as a result, the effect was absent.
The Brandenburg state office for health revoked the operating permit of Luna Pharm and ordered the immediate enforceability of the decision. However, the company moved to court. However, the new tracks, according to the “daily mirror” and now to Italy. This is according to the newspaper from an internal E-Mail traffic from the health authorities of both countries.
Therefore, Luna must have Pharm, at least in the field of medicines from Italy, know that it is stolen property. Specifically, it is, in fact, the breast and gastric cancer drug Herceptin. The Mediterranean was a few years ago the subject of massive thefts in hospitals, for the Italian authorities to make the Mafia responsible.
Drugs can’t legally be traded
That Luna Pharm sold in July, Herceptin, in Italy, in Germany, was explosive, reported the “daily mirror”. The drug stand since the thefts in the year 2014 on the red list in the alert system of the EU health authorities. “There is no way Herceptin legally from Italy to introduce stock,” read the E-Mails. Every dealer in Europe knows that.
According to the newspaper, Italy’s authorities have made in communication, a clear evaluation: Anyone who take Herceptin from Italy, was “unquestionably part of the criminal network”. This is likely to have an impact on the dispute, the administrative court of Potsdam in order to decide in the next week in a fast-tracked the approval for Luna, Pharm.
Sales to pharmacies in nine provinces
According to the findings of the ARD policy magazine “contrasts” had Luna Pharm traded since the year 2013 with anti-cancer drugs from Greece. Pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Hamburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, lower Saxony, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt according to the “RBB” Luna Pharm in the years 2015 to 2017 have been supplied.
The drugs were stolen, according to the research of the “contrasts” in Greece from hospitals. Subsequently, they were, according to Greek authorities, among other things, to a fish market and in private dwellings are temporarily stored, before they were brought in suitcases by air to Germany, where they were then distributed by Luna, Pharm.
After the scandal, Brandenburg’s Minister of health, Diana Golze ladenbau is under pressure. While the authorities had, apparently, already in the year 2016 instructions on illegal activities, through attacked you just now. The state health Agency and two employees on suspicion of bribery. However, the Prosecutor’s office saw no evidence. Now a Task Force is to educate the operations.