Hyderabad: A six-member gang selling Remediesvir injection vials to covid-19 patients was arrested by LB Municipal Police on Monday.
The police seized five vials, Rs. 5.52 lakhs, mobile phones and a motorcycle from them.
The arrested persons were identified as Lakkisetty Suresh Kumar (57) a Grade II pharmacist with the Andhra Pradesh Medical Infrastructure Development Corporation and a native of Anantapur, Telugupally Chiranjeevi (33), a medical distributor from Secunderabad, Chilukuri Venkat (30), a partner at Life Care Hospital in Nalgonda district, Ganja Shiva Krishna (29) DMO at Life Care Hospital, Uppal, Karra Suresh Kumar (36) former MD of Akshara Hospital Uppal, and Tulasi Srikanth (45) a realtor from Balapur.
According to the police, the six men formed a gang and were selling the expired vitals to the people at high prices after being manufactured on the boxes and tampering with the expiry date.
“Lakkisetty Suresh sold the injections to other gang members after tampering with the expiry and date of manufacture.
His five associates then sold it to different individuals at a great cost and made a profit, ”said V Ashok Reddy, Inspector (LB Nagar), stating that it was on the basis of a buyer complaint which was registered by LB Nagar Police Started the case and investigation.
After nabbing Suresh and Chiranjeevi, the police realized the fraud and the subsequent investigation led to the arrest of the rest.
