Word: counterfeiting
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...years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
NAFDAC went on the offensive back home as well, conducting nearly 800 raids on drug-distribution outlets and 90 "destruction exercises" on counterfeit or substandard medicines. "We are winning," says Akunyili. "Made-in-Nigeria drugs are now acceptable in other West African countries. Multinational [drug manufacturers] that left out of frustration are coming back...
...million Value of high-grade counterfeit $100 bills, believed to have been printed in North Korea, confiscated in the U.S. and Taiwan...
...Officers were dispatched to investigate reports of a counterfeit $10 bill at the Kennedy School of Government. HUPD determined the $10 bill was, in fact, authentic...
...past year alone party and government officials or their children have started 20,000 private businesses, "a considerable number of which collaborate with lawbreakers and unscrupulous foreign businessmen" to get rich in ways that are decidedly not glorious. Among the crimes he accused them of were peddling counterfeit medicine and "the sale of obscene videotapes." It is widely estimated that about half the managers of state-owned enterprises pursue profit by cheating on corporate income taxes. The most sensational scandal involved a ring of party and government officials on Hainan Island who sold $1.5 billion of goods illegally imported through...