London: An Indian-origin man in the UK has been jailed for 20 months for the supply and sale of a huge quantity of unlicensed medication for treating impotency.
Gurinder Bharaj, from Southall in west London, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court in the city on Friday on eight counts of possession and supply of significant quantities of unauthorised and unlicensed medication.
Investigators from UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) raided a property belonging to Bharaj in Ealing, west London, where more than 100,000 individual doses of unlicensed erectile dysfunction medicines worth more than 30,000 pounds were uncovered and seized. A smaller quantity of prescription medication was also seized. The medicine is unauthorised means that it has not been subjected to the regulatory scrutiny and quality assurances.