The cargo discovered by the Gdf during a check at the port
May 15, 2024
The Fiamme Gialle of Ancona and the officials of the local Customs and Monopolies Agency carried out a huge kidnapping, unprecedented in Porto Dorico, averting a serious and immediate threat to the health of potential consumers. During checks carried out on an articulated lorry disembarked from a motor vessel coming from Greece, a well-concealed load consisting of a huge quantity of medicines of Indian originall without the necessary authorizations and certifications for their import and distribution in Italy.
The cargo included more 2,100,000 doses of irregular drugs, including as many as 1,700,000 containing the active ingredients Sildenafil, Tadalafil and Vardenafil, used for erectile dysfunction. In addition to sexual enhancement drugs, over 400,000 doses of medicines containing Gonadotropin, or hormones to promote pregnancy, were found, often also used in the world of bodybuilders to increase muscle mass, and Preanailin, an antiepileptic drug, often used to enhance the effects of drugs.
