Kalemyo police personnel in Sagaing Division, Burma, are selling narcotic medicines procured in India and seized from drug traders.
Tablets were confiscated from drug traffickers and secretly sold to drug dealers by the Kalemyo police post commander, Thun Ngwe, and his colleagues
“The policemen sold the medicines from the godown [warehouse] of the police station. The act was repeated 12 times,” said a local in Kalemyo.
On 16 July 2012, Kalemyo police authorities seized around 100 kilograms of Indian medicines from Mai Siang Tin, 37, in Falam Town, Chin state, Lal Than Thang, 32, and Lawma, 22, from Tahan, Kalemyo.
In addition, Kalemyo police seized 5,795,000 tablets of Pseudoephedrine in 12 boxes on Tamu and Kalemyo highway on 29 July 2012. Estimates value the drugs at around 869,250,000 Kyats.
“I estimate that the medicines sold would be worth around 3,000 lakh Kyats. There are numerous such seizures by the local police,” said a local.
Since 2010, names of medicines like SOLKUF, BROKUF, BROXID, COLD GO, NAM COLD-L, ACTIPIN, ACTIPHATE, ALPRAZOLAM, LORFAST-D and PEPTICA have been submitted by Burmese authorities to the Indian government to prevent illegal importation into Burma.
