Overview
- At a Hague hearing, the Public Prosecution Service cautioned that buyers of medicines from fake online pharmacies cannot know the contents or risks of what they ingest.
- Investigators seized hundreds of thousands of illicit tablets at a suspect’s home and said a truck was needed to remove the stock, with 300 kilograms of cocaine also recovered.
- Media reports say at least 13 people have died and about 22 suffered severe poisonings after taking illegal sleeping pills linked to the trade under investigation.
- A 44-year-old woman who died on April 1 had nitazeen in her system, but prosecutors say they cannot prove her fatal pill came from the two Breda suspects.
- One suspect allegedly routed packages via his postal employer to a sorting center and the other handled orders and inventory from a Breda residence; both have been in custody since late September.