The leader of a multi-million dollar scam that passed off saline solution and mineral water as Covid-19 vaccines has been arrested in China. The leader identified as Kong, he had researched the packaging designs of real vaccines before making more than 58,000 of his own concoctions. The vaccines were smuggled overseas, but it is not known that where they were suppling. Although 70 people who have been arrested with kong in same claim. They are involved in more than 20 cases and they came beijing vowed to crack down on fake vaccines.
Kong and his team were making fake covid vaccine by putting saline solution or mineral water in syringes and hawking them as Covid vaccines since August last year. According to an BBC report “A batch of 600 of covid vaccine were supplied Hong Kong last November before they were shipping abroad.”
In other cases, counterfeit vaccines were sold at inflated prices in hospitals. Other criminals also conducted large vaccination programmes of their own and had disguised “village doctors” vaccinate people with fake jabs in their homes and cars.
China’s highest prosecuting body, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate has urged regional agencies to cooperate with the police in order to keep such activities at bay.
