Pharmaceutical Companies fund Interpol, the International clearinghouse for Transnational Criminals.
Interpol has now joined hands with these companies to fight ‘Counterfeit Medicines‘
Pharmaceutical Companies are involved in Crimes themselves, like Testing of new Drugs on unsuspecting people especially in poor countries, including India.
I have posted on this.
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Drugs ,it is reported that , are not tested on children and are marketed.
The FDA is of the opinion that Clinical Trials of Drugs conducted on Children give off reliable results,especially the contra-indications.
I am reproducing a real instance quoted in The Scientist.
‘But the story of Paxil also illustrates the power of somewhat obscure laws that have saved children’s lives by changing the way drugmakers test their products”(http://ramanisblog.in/2012/03/07/clinical-testing-of-drugs-and-pharma-companies-patents/)
Or let’s take the Case of Union Carbide , which caused the death of people in Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy in India and the CEO was let off and he was not extradited.
They are yet to pay equitable compensation to the maimed.
Or take the case of arbitrary price-fixing and stealing Locally Patented Medicines.
The Corporate Companies are transnational.
If they are involved in Crime like these how do you arrest them?
Do you believe that Interpol would chase them, now that they are funding Interpol?
Tomorrow Columbian Drug Cartel may contribute to Interpol for fighting Drug abuse?
Story:
LYON, France – Combating the global scourge of fake medicines which threatens the health of millions of people is the focus of a landmark agreement between INTERPOL and 29 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
The three-year deal, worth EUR 4.5 million, will see the creation of INTERPOL’s Pharmaceutical Crime Programme to further build on the work of its Medical Product Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime (MPCPC) unit. This will enhance the law enforcement community’s response to pharmaceutical crime through stronger partnership development.
The programme will focus on the prevention of all types of pharmaceutical crime including branded and generic drug counterfeiting as well as the identification and dismantling of organized crime networks linked to this illegal activity, which generates millions in illicit profits every year.
“With no country, no drug, no medical product immune from counterfeiting, a global effort is needed to combat this threat which puts the lives of millions of people at risk every single day,” said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble…
http://www.interpol.int/en/Internet/News-and-media/News-media-releases/2013/PR031
Generic Drugs Issue.
‘Counterfeit is essentially an intellectual property issue referring to falsely packaged products that violate trademarks, but it is not necessarily about the quality of the medicine. We use the word spurious to refer to drugs without active ingredients in it. Big pharma has been trying to confuse the two issues and have been trying to make counterfeit seem like a public health issue when it is not,” explained K Gopakumar legal advisor to Third World Network.
“Last month, there was a meeting in Vienna of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on “fraudulent medicines” which was pushed by multinational companies. Before that, there was the issue of the International Medical Product Anti-Counterfeit Task-force (IMPACT) when it came to the WHO and that was also an initiative launched by the multinationals. ThisInterpol effort seems to be along the same lines. We are very concerned about this move by multinationals to fund Interpol and we will surely be looking into it,” said Rajeev Kher, additional secretary in the department of commerce and India’s chief negotiator at the WTO. According to Kher, since CBI was a Interpol member, its officials and the home ministry participate in all activities of the Interpol it was a matter of concern.
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