Islamabad:
The Pakistani authorities have taken advantage of a large amount of smuggled Indian origin, a highly addictive drug, with a value of RS10 billion, suspecting the participation of a cross -border contraband network.
The Karachi Customs Application College seized the high smuggling medication, according to customs officials who are aware of the details of the operation that took place on February 20.
The Tramadol is regulated by the Pakistan Drug Regulatory Authority (DRAP) and is a high highly addictive opioid, confirmed the laboratory report.
The medicine can be bought in Pakistan in Docoar’s recipe. But two weeks ago, the DRAP had considered a proposal to declare it as a “controlled substance” under the substance control law of 1997 to limit its use as an opioid addictive drug.
The Customs of Pakistan has declared seizure as one of the largest pharmaceutical operations in which it recovered 21.8 million tablets and 7,000 capsules of unregistered tramadol. Personalized officials said it could be the largest seizure in southern Asia.
The recovered amount requires a large container for transport. Last year, Mumbai Customs confiscated 6.8 million tablets worth RS1.1 billion Indians. Opioid is not widely used in Pakistan and its main markets are in the Middle East and Africa. However, authorities have apprehension that the medicine can be used by anti-state elements, since their consumers can remain awake for hours.
Customs officials said the estimated market value of medicines is RS10 billion. Collector Customs Moinuddin Ahmad Wani team carried out the operation on February 20 in Karachi.
Preliminary investigations revealed that some of the smuggling drugs were also poorly discarded as vaccines. Customs officials found some packaging material from the raid site, with the brand of the “Expanded Immunization Program”. The authorities suspected that some of the drugs could have been smuggled under the attire of the vaccine immunization program due to the possibility of the participation of compensation agents.
The seized drugs were full of boxes, many of which had brands that indicated their origin from India. A detailed examination revealed multiple high -dose tramadol variants, including Tamral, Royal, Steying Yellow 225mg, Black Black 225mg and 250mg, and New Tramadol.
The absence of DRAP registration numbers in seized products suggests that they were illegally imported or manufactured locally using active smuggling pharmaceutical ingredients (API), according to authorities.
A FIR has been submitted and legal procedures have been initiated against those involved in the smuggling of the seized drugs. Until now, Customs has tracked a chemist and a pharmaceutical company that could have been part of the cross -border smuggling network.
The goods have been arrested under section 168 of the Customs Law of 1969, and a notice has been issued under section 171. In addition, the warehouse guard was arrested during the raid, and more arrests are expected as the research, authorities said.
The Customs Control College said it dismantled the network involved in the illegal trade of dangerous and unregistered pharmaceutical products. The raid had been carried out in an abandoned warehouse in the industrial area of Korangi during the night of February 20 and 21.
The officials said that the seized sending samples were sent to the Central Drug Laboratory (CDL) for their test, which confirmed the presence of the API, the tramadol hydrochloride.
The development also occurred immediately after breaking a smuggling network by an intelligence agency a few weeks ago, which included 78 customs and smugglers involved in the smuggling of UMSTOM’s unpaid goods since Quetta a fine, Dera Ghazi Khan, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
