{"id":91407,"date":"2018-04-26T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=714bbf40a7e14f0d89ff6f74a258661a"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:53:26","slug":"news-story-couple-sentenced-for-operating-fake-online-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91407","title":{"rendered":"News story: Couple sentenced for operating fake online pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following a guilty plea, Mr Jakub Wo\u017aniak, 36, was sentenced to a total of 18 months immediate custody while Ms Izabela Wojceichowska, 37, received an eight-month sentence suspended for two years, in addition to 180 hours of unpaid work. The pair were also ordered to pay \u00a33,000 in related costs.<\/p>\n

During one raid MHRA enforcement officers seized large quantities of unlicensed and prescription-only medicines such as erectile dysfunction pills, steroids and illegal slimming tablets with a total value of more than \u00a325,500. The slimming pills alone were valued at \u00a37,900.<\/p>\n

Additional investigations uncovered evidence of financial transactions for the sale of unauthorised medicines totalling more than \u00a387,500 while a follow-up raid on Wo\u017aniak\u2019s home revealed he had continued offending after the first raid and a further \u00a310,752.4 worth of steroids were seized.<\/p>\n

Despite neither being registered doctors nor pharmacists, the guilty pair were operating an illegal online pharmacy which provided a mail-order service with customers across the UK . They had different roles in the operation, with Wojceichowska handling slimming pills and Wo\u017aniak dealing with all other medical products.<\/p>\n

Alastair Jeffrey, MHRA Head of Enforcement said:<\/p>\n

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Selling potent unlicensed or prescription-only medicines is a serious criminal offence. If taken without medical supervision these medicines can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n

We work relentlessly with regulatory and law enforcement colleagues to identify and prosecute all those involved.<\/p>\n

Criminals only want your cash and don\u2019t have the slightest interest in your health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MHRA is currently running the #FakeMeds campaign to warn people against buying potentially dangerous or useless unlicensed medicines sold by illegal online suppliers.<\/p>\n

Visit www.gov.uk\/fakemeds<\/a> for tips on buying medicines safely online and how to avoid unscrupulous sites.<\/p>\n

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A couple from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, were sentenced at Northampton Crown Court yesterday for possession with intent to supply unlicensed medicinal products and Class C controlled drugs in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}