Medical employees charged with issuing drug prescriptions without tests
The Investigation Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry said it had established the individuals issued prescriptions without “proper medical examination and laboratory tests” for material gain. Photo: is.ge
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Two individuals have been charged by the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia for selling prescriptions for psychotropic drugs without medical testing in Georgia’s east.
The Service said it had established the individuals issued prescriptions without “proper medical examination and laboratory tests” for material gain.
It added it cooperated with the Kakheti District Prosecutor’s Office in the east to charge the persons with the article of “commercial bribery”.
The crime is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of up to three years.
Georgia’s Regulation Agency for Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities has recorded 258 cases of illegal pharmaceutical activities in 62 pharmacies across the country this year, the body said on Friday.
The Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance has arrested four individuals for commercial bribery. Police found that the suspects were systematically selling expired meat products and pastry, produced by various Georgian and foreign companies, removed from the supply chain and intended for destruction. In exchange they were receiving certain quantities of money.
Twenty-seven pharmacies have been found by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the State Security Service to be selling psychoactive drugs illegally in Tbilisi and other regions of Georgia.
Nineteen pharmacies have been found in the Georgian capital Tbilisi by the investigative service of Georgia’s Finance Ministry to be selling psychoactive drugs illegally.
The Regulation Agency for Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities of the Georgian Health Ministry on Saturday said three medical facilities and doctors were suspended from operating for illegally issuing strong psychotropic drug prescriptions without any medical examination in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi and the eastern city of Gori.
The Investigation Service of Georgia’s Ministry of Finance on Thursday said its professionals had arrested one individual for selling counterfeit currency.