Police have arrested a gang in Pretoria that was selling illicit drugs online, seizing a substantial quantity of counterfeit and illicit performance-enhancing drugs, steroids, scheduled medicine and stimulants in the shakedown.
Three men and three women face charges related to the contravention of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, Medicines and Related Substances Act and the Counterfeit Goods Act, and will appear in court this week, said spokesperson Lt-Colonel Amanda van Wyk.
The operation took place on Tuesday after extensive investigations by the national organised crime investigations narcotics unit, supported by the transnational vehicle crime investigation unit, Gauteng provincial narcotics unit, crime intelligence, K9 search and rescue, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority, the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport, and the financial intelligence centre.
Van Wyk told TimesLIVE that investigations, which included a forensic analysis, revealed that some of the products contain prohibited substances. One product sold online as a “fat burner” contained dimethylphenethylamine, an isomer of methamphetamine (commonly known as crystal meth or Tik).
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