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Peter Gillespie, 64, a British businessman was sentenced to eight years for trafficking related to the sale of counterfeit drugs most serious occurred in Europe.

According to the Guardian, the man was involved in an import line for more than 2 million doses of fake medicines, including prostate cancer, heart disease and schizophrenia. Some medications are manufactured in China.

72,000 boxes of counterfeit drugs - worth £ 4.7 million, had been smuggling drugs into the supply system of this country from January to March 12/2006 5 / 2007. In addition, about 25,000 boxes were also distributed drugs to pharmacies and sold to patients.

The number of counterfeit drugs has put the health of thousands of UK at risk because they contain only 50-80% of active ingredients effective treatment plus other impurities. However, according to authorities, the number of these counterfeit drugs do not cause death or any other cases of serious side effects.

Peter and four other people in line had a profit of 3 million pounds from the sale of counterfeit drugs.